Roman Theatre Overview
Textbooks on Reserve
A cultural history of theatre
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This is good for:
Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
Theater and society
Influence on modern or contemporary theater
Representative plays and playwrights
Chapter 3 Rome
Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
Roman Theatre – Occasion, Location, Performers, Audience, Imperial Theatre – c. 200
ce, Trip to the Roman Theatre (stage design and theater design), Standards of Judgement
(Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations, audience)
Dramatic Literature – Plautus, Terence, Seneca (Representative plays and playwrights)
Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
Comic characters endure throughout western history to modern television
Television comedy – stock characters developed in the Roman era
Modern comic forms – based on comic devices from Plautus and Terence
Idea of theatre a secular diversion rather than religious spectacle
Western theatre: Revolution and revival
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Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
Theater and society
Representative plays and playwrights
Chapter 4 Roman Theatre 240 B.C. – ca A.D. 476
Origins of Popular Tradition – Etruscan Influences, Oscan Influences, Western Greek
Influence, Literary Tradition, Festivals (Theater and Society)
The Theatres (stage design and theater desing)/The Audience/The Performers/Masks and
Costumes (Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
Permanent Theatres (Stage Design and Theater Design)
Playwrights and Plays (Representative plays and playwrights)
Theatre: A history of the art
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Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
Theater and society
Representative plays and playwrights
Chapter 3 The Roman Theatre
The Roman World/Etruscan Dance and Drama/Roman Festivals/Atellan Farce/The
Mimes (Theater and Society)
The Golden Age of Roman Drama/Plautus/Terence/Drama Under the
Empire/Seneca/Horace (Representative plays and playwrights)
The Roman Actor (Actors and Acting)
The Structure of the Roman Theatre/Stage Settings (Theater Design and Stage Design)
Costumes and Mask (Costumes)
Period Style for the Theatre
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This is good for:
Theater design, costumes, acting, society and culture, representative playwrights and
plays
Chapter 3 Roman Style
Art and Culture/Life and Cultural Ideals (Culture and Society)
Ornament, Interiors, Furniture/The Theatre (Stage Design and Theater Design)
Costume and Accessories
Movement/Acting the Plays
The Plays (Representative plays and Playwrights)
History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
NW Owens Reserve – Theat B023
This is good for:
Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
Theater and society
Representative plays and dramatists of the time
Chapter 3/Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Theatre
Roman Context/Roman Festivals/Other Entertainments (Theater and Society).
Drama Under the Romans (Representative plays and playwrights)
Production Arrangements (Audiences and Performances)
Roman Theatre Architecture/Other Structures for Entertainments (Theater Design and
Stage Design)
Actors and Acting
Masks and Costumes
Roman culture and society (Theater and society)
Daily life of the ancient Romans / David Matz.
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NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 937 M44d
Daily Life of the Ancient Romans (eBook)
David Matz
http://dailylife.greenwood.com/dle.aspx?k=2&bc=DBDL1311&x=19&p=1-1
Leisure and ancient Rome / J.P. Toner.
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NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 306.4812 T66L
Life in ancient Rome / by F.R. Cowell ; illustrated from drawings by D. Stredder Bist.
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NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 937 C87L 1980
Daily life in ancient Rome / Florence Dupont ; translated by Christopher Woodall.
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Library Catalog/MOBIUS Catalog
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Rome -- Civilization.
Core Books on Ancient Greek Theatre in Owens Library
eBook
Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton. "The Cambridge Companion to Greek and
Roman Theatre." The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre.
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=11992/extract?id=ccol9780521834568_CCOL9780521834
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Erasmo, Mario. Roman Tragedy : Theatre to Theatricality.
Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press, 2004. p 1.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/nwmsu/Doc?id=10188328&ppg=14
Segal, Erich. Roman Laughter : The Comedy of Plautus.
Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1987. p ii.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/nwmsu/Doc?id=10085373&ppg=2
Greek and Roman actors : aspects of an ancient profession / edited by Pat Easterling and
Edith Hall.
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NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.028 G79g
The Roman theatre and its audience / Richard C. Beacham.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792 B36r
The Roman stage; a short history of Latin drama in the time of the Republic [by] W.
Beare.
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NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.094 B36r3
Stage antiquities of the Greeks and Romans and their influence / by James Turney Allen
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NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.093 A42s
Influence of Roman Theatre on Modern/Contemporary Theatre
Roman drama in the twentieth century. (2002). In Continuum Companion to Twentieth
Century Theatre. Retrieved from
http://www.credoreference.com/entry/conttct/roman_drama_in_the_twentieth_century
Representative Plays and Playwrights
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
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Volume 4 – Roman Drama
Articles on individual playwrights such as Terence
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Source: Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy, University of Toronto Press, 1993, 179
p. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 24
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"Titus Maccius Plautus," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 211: Ancient
Roman Writers. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Ward W. Briggs, University
of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1999, pp. 227-234.
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"Terence," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 211: Ancient Roman Writers. A
Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Ward W. Briggs, University of South Carolina.
The Gale Group, 1999, pp. 314-321.
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Levin, Richard, The Double Plots of Terence, in The Classical Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1,
October, 1966, pp. 301-05. Reprinted in Drama Criticism, Vol. 7. Reproduced in
Literature Resource Center.
eTexts of Roman Plays
Adapted to Contemporary Settings
Plautus, Titus Maccius. Rome and the Mysterious East : Three Plays by Plautus.
Ewing, NJ, USA: University of California Press, 2005. p 1.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/nwmsu/Doc?id=10106464&ppg=18
O'Bryhim, Shawn(Editor). Greek and Roman Comedy : Translations and Interpretations
of Four Representative Plays.
Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press, 2001. p 187.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/nwmsu/Doc?id=10245803&ppg=198
PLAUTUS. Trans, by Paul Nixon. Vol. II
http://books.google.com/books?id=R6qEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=plautus#
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