Tragedy in Ovid
：Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre
Publication subTitle ：Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre
Author： Dan Curley;
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781316896259
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107009530
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781107009530
Subject： I106.2 Poetry
Keyword： 世界史
Language： ENG
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Description
This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet. A comprehensive study of Ovid's career as a tragedian. Important for scholars of Latin poetry and especially Ovid's amatory works, and for those interested in the history of the stage and the rich intertextuality of Greco-Roman literature. A comprehensive study of Ovid's career as a tragedian. Important for scholars of Latin poetry and especially Ovid's amatory works, and for those interested in the history of the stage and the rich intertextuality of Greco-Roman literature. Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his career as a tragedian – if only on the page instead of the stage. This book surveys tragic characters, motifs and modalities in the Heroides and the Metamorphoses. In writing love letters, Ovid's heroines and heroes display their suffering in an epistolary theater. In telling transformation stories, Ovid offers an exploded view of the traditional theater, although his characters never stray too far from their dramatic origins. Both works constitute an intratextual network of tragic stories that anticipate the theatrical excesses of Seneca and reflect the all-encompassing spirit of Roman imperium. 1. Mutatas dicere formas: the transformation of tragedy; 2. Nunc habeam per te Romana Tragoedia nomen: Ovid's Medea and Roman tragedy; 3. Lacrimas finge videre meas: epistolary theater; 4. Locus exstat et ex re nomen habet: space, time, and spectacle; 5. Tollens ad sidera palmas exclamat: staging rhetoric; 6. Medeae Medea forem: tragic intratextuality; 7. Carmen et error: tragedy's end.
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