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ROMAN DRAMA AND ITS CONTEXTS KARTONIERT (TB)

Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones
more recently). However  they have not always been placed into their 'context'  though plays
(just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited
collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of
scholars  discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy  tragedy and
praetexta  from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary
tradition  the relationship to works in other literary genres  the historical and social
situation  the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall  they offer a rich
panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history.
The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or
literature more generally  comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual
approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

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