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ROMAN COMEDY

ROMAN COMEDY. ORIGINS. Inspirations for Roman Comedy. Greek comedy practiced in Italy Attic comedy Native forms of entertainment (including Atellana). Comedy in Italy.

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ROMAN COMEDY

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  1. ROMAN COMEDY ORIGINS

  2. Inspirations for Roman Comedy • Greek comedy practiced in Italy • Attic comedy • Native forms of entertainment (including Atellana)

  3. Comedy in Italy • 6th - 5th century BCEEPICHARMUS a Sicilian writer of comedy (Arist. 1448b 32)Testimonies: titles, citations, and fragments of plays in the Sicilian Doric dialect. His specialty: mythological burlesque.

  4. Attic comedy • Possibly performed in the 4th-3rd century by the technitai of Dionysus • in addition to Euripidean tragedy (which had many comic features)

  5. Greek comedy in Latin • 3rd century BCE Comoedia palliata‘comedy in Greek clothes’ • Best known authors: Plautus and Terence. • Plays used the scripts of Greek New Comedy adapted to suit the taste of Roman audiences

  6. Stages • Originally wooden structures, no seatsLong narrow wooden stage (pulpitum) Comedy: background building (scaena) represents two houses with an alley in between (angiportus); Exit to the left  forum; Exit to the right  the harbor or countryside.

  7. Roman theaters • 154 BCE a theater under construction demolished 145 BCE Mummius’ wooden theater55 BCE Theater of Pompeius 13 CE theaters of Cornelius Balbus and Marcellus

  8. Producers & Performers • Originally: poets would produce and perform in their own plays; • Later: professional domini gregis owners of troupes of actors bought the piece and contracted its performance for the aediles who financed the entertainment.

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