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Tragedy in Ovid - Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre (Electronic book text)
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Tragedy in Ovid - Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre (Electronic book text)
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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.
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