caa a22 4500 388081945 CHVBK 20180307125219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0017383500026061 doi S0017383500026061 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0017383500026061 Grant M. D. Plautus and Seneca: Acting in Nero's Rome [Elektronische Daten] [M. D. Grant] Anyone who has ever read the tragedies of Seneca must have wondered at the intention of the author. In the absence of any external evidence for their staging this is not surprising. W. Beare argues for declamation before a select audience who would have appreciated the sparkle of the rhetoric. G. E. Duckworth, whilst stressing that presentation on stage cannot be proved, suggests tentatively that they were at least written with an eye to performance. C. D. N. Costa holds out for solo virtuoso recitals, with perhaps extracts or a few scenes being performed. F. Ahl recalls the emperor Domitian's enactment forbidding plays to be presented anywhere except indoors, and thus the large houses of the aristocracy may have been home to tragic theatre. V. Sorensen feels that a public performance of Seneca's tragedies would have been a notable public occasion, and with his ample means to fund such events, Seneca may have been trying to entice a large audience towards the benefits of Stoic philosophy. Copyright © The Classical Association 1999 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/1(1999-04), 27-33 0017-3835 46:1<27 1999 46 GAR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500026061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500026061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Grant M. D. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/1(1999-04), 27-33 0017-3835 46:1<27 1999 46 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge