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GREEK MIMES
Mime term applied indiscriminatelyboth to scripts and performers
Short playlets, mimetic dance,
imitation of animals, singing,acrobatics and so on
Probably the first professional
entertainers Short mime playlets originated in
Megara in 6th century B.C.
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ROMAN
THEATREAND DRAMA
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753 B.C. Rome was founded
4th century began to expand
265 B.C. controlled the Italian
Peninsula
Between 270 & 240 B.C. took
several Greek territories
240 B.C. beginning of Roman
theatre
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ETRUSCAN ANTECEDENTS
Etruria dominant influence onRoman theatrical activities
Rome inherited many features
of its religious festivals
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THE ROMAN CONTEXT
146 B.C Rome had conqueredGreece
Two phases of Romes history:
1. The Republicrepublican virtues
2. The Empire regular dramas were
abandoned
Romans placed more emphasis on theform as on the substance of religious
ceremonies
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ROMAN FESTIVALS
Ludi official religious festivals
Ludi Romani oldest of the official
festivals
Instauratio repetition of Ludi Romani
Ludi Plebeii seven times in one year
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DRAMA UNDER THE ROMANS
Roman literature began with LiviusAndronicus
Gnaeus Naevius first native-born
dramatist Plautus & Terence authors of the
only surviving Roman comedies
Titus Maccius Plautus first importantsuccessor to Andronicus and Naevius
Publius Terentius Afer does not lie in intrigue
but character and the double plots
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Fabula Palliata comedy based onGreek originals
Fabula Togata comedy based on
Roman materials Lucius Annaeus Seneca famous for
his works on rhetoric and philosophy
1. Five-act form was standard 2. Elaborate speeches
3. Interest on morality
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4. Scenes of violence and horror
5. Pre occupation with magic, death and
interpretation of human and superhuman
worlds 6. Creation of characters
Technical devices were taken over by
later authors
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Fabulae Atellanae 300 400 lines
Subject matters: cheating, gluttony,
fighting or sexual exploits
4 stock characters:1. Bucco
2.Papus
3. Maccus
4. Dossenus
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Fabula Riciniata (mime)
Republic:
Ludi Florales festival honoring one of the
fertility goddesses Empire:
Dramatic form, usually short but elaborate and
complex
Helioglabalus ordered sexual acts to beperformed realistically
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Fabula Saltica (Pantomime)
Popular story telling dance
Plots more usually taken from mythology
or historyAction was accompanied by a chorus or
orchestra
Pylades and Bathyllus introducedpantomime to Rome
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