Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian

by Shadi Bartsch

When Nero took the stage, the audience played along--or else. The drama thus enacted, whether in the theater proper or in the political arena, unfolds in all its rich complexity in Actors in the Audience. This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatized his rule and how his subordinates in turn staged their response. The focus is on Nero: his performances onstage spurred his contemporaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674280989
• ISBN13: 9780674280984
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"