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Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime (Hardcover, New)
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Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime (Hardcover, New)
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Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the
Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary
critics. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to
our understanding of Seneca's tragic art by demonstrating that
elements which have long puzzled scholars can be attributed to the
influence of pantomime. The work argues that certain formal
features which depart from the conventions of fifth-century Attic
drama can be explained by the influence of, and interaction with,
this more popular genre. The work includes a detailed and
systematic analysis of the specific pantomime-inspired features of
Seneca's tragedies: the loose dramatic structure, the presence of
"running commentaries" (minute descriptions of characters
undergoing emotional strains or performing specific actions), of
monologues of self-analysis, and of narrative set-pieces. Relevant
to the culture of Roman imperial culture more generally, Seneca's
Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime includes an outline of
the general features of pantomime as a genre. The work shows that
the influence of sub-literary-genres such as pantomime and mime,
the sister art of pantomime, can be traced in several Roman writers
whose literary production was antecedent or contemporary with
Seneca's. Furthermore, the work sheds light on the interaction
between sub-literary genres of a performative nature such as mime
and pantomime and more literary ones, an aspect of Latin culture
which previous scholarship has tended to overlook. Seneca's
Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime provides an original
contribution to the understanding of the impact of pantomime on
Roman literary culture and of controversial and little-understood
features of Senecan tragedies.
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