The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy

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by Thomas; Kohn


  Miller, Arthur, 2, 3, 14

  miming, 17, 21, 36, 37–41, 45, 77, 87–88, 103–4, 115

  modern production of Senecan tragedy, 6

  motivated stage events, 3–4

  Mr. Magoo, 164n9

  necromancy, 27, 30, 33, 41–42, 47, 48, 49, 150n18

  Neophron, 91

  Nero, 143, 148n49, 156n56

  Noh Theater, 142–43, 167–68n7

  orchestra, 29, 161n6

  Oresteia, 22, 64

  Ovid, 5, 10, 78, 91, 143, 145n4, 147n27

  Pausanius, 156n3

  performance question, 1, 6–13, 132, 140, 142

  Petroinus, 9

  plague, 18, 34, 35, 36, 47, 168n19

  Plautus, 19, 27, 143, 148n58, 158n42, 161n6, 164n13

  Pliny the Younger, 7, 8, 9

  Plutarch, 148n49

  Pomponius Secundus, 10, 131

  Prairie Home Companion, 145n6

  props, 17, 19–20, 31, 47, 57, 58, 59, 62, 65, 69, 72–73, 74–75, 76, 77, 87, 90, 98–99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 121, 128, 129, 130, 131, 137, 140

  [pseudo–] Suetonius 10

  Quintillian, 5, 10, 142, 148n58

  recitatio, 7–8

  Roscius, 148n58

  scaenae frons, passim, 16, 17, 20, 25, 30, 35, 36, 41, 42, 45, 47, 55, 59, 61, 70, 74–76, 79, 82–83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 91, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 126, 127, 129, 136, 149n63, 164n12

  scene decoration, 16, 20, 97, 114

  Schechner, Richard, 12, 17, 19, 146n16, 149n71, 149n83, 151n25

  Schlegel, A. W., 7, 145n2

  Seneca philosophus, 7, 10, 25, 146n20

  Servius, 10

  setting, change of, 27, 67–68, 112–13, 116, 118, 123, 133–34, 140, 159n25

  Shakespeare, William, 4, 13, 20, 97, 114, 149n71

  Shepard, Sam, 146n16

  Sherlock Holmes, 3

  Sidonius Apollinaris, 173n3

  silent reading, 7

  Slaney, Helen, 6

  Sophocles, 8, 18, 37, 43, 47, 123, 131, 138, 143, 145n1, 150n85, 158n55, 161n42, 164n4, 172n4

  sound cues/effects, 18, 40, 45, 46, 49, 69, 74, 76, 79, 82, 84, 85, 88, 90, 91, 97, 100, 153n87, 171n25

  Sphinx and her riddle, 34

  stage directions in parenthesis, 145n4

  Stoicism, 143

  Suetonius, 10, 37, 149n68, 149nn75–76, 156n56

  synecdoche, 98

  Tactitus, 7–8, 10, 11, 149n68

  Terence, 19, 27, 143, 149n66, 164n13

  theologeion, 165n19

  Thrasea Paetus, 11

  Tiberius, 148n57, 149n68

  trap door, 5, 16, 19, 31, 53, 54, 125, 126, 140

  Turner, Victor, 149n83

  Uninvited Company at Carleton College, 14

  V for Vendetta, 152n45

  Varius, 10, 131

  ventriloquism, 18, 95, 112, 120

  Vergil, 5, 10, 37, 143, 144, 147n41

  Vitruvius, 10, 11, 13, 15–16, 29, 148n58, 161n6

  wall paintings, 9, 10–11

  wings, 15, 16, 31, 33, 68, 113, 129, 137, 138, 140

  leading to the Forum (Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes), 44, 45, 46, 53, 54–55, 62, 125

  to Thebes (Phoenissae), 134, 135, 136

  to the palace (Medea, HF), 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 107

  to the ruins of Troy (Troades), 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122

  to the Underworld (Phaedra), 67–68, 74

  leading to foreign parts/out of town (Oedipus, Medea, Thyestes, Phoenissae), 36, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 82, 89, 125, 127, 134, 135, 136

  to the forest (Phaedra), 67–68, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 159n18

  to the harbor (Agamemnon), 50, 53, 57, 58, 59, 63

  to the ships of the Achaeans (Troades), 113, 122

  to the Underworld (HF), 96, 100

  wordplay, 42, 48, 94, 170n12

  Xavier University, 6, 145n2

 

 

 


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