TY - BOOK AU - Bartsch,Shadi TI - Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian T2 - Revealing Antiquity , SN - 9780674280984 U1 - 875/.0109 PY - 2013///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Communication KW - Dictateurs dans la littérature KW - Dictators in literature KW - Dramaturgie KW - Empereurs dans la littérature KW - Emperors in literature KW - Historiography KW - Jeu de rôle dans la littérature KW - Lateinische Literatur KW - Latin literature KW - Literature and history KW - Misleiding KW - Politieke macht KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Role playing in literature KW - Theater audiences KW - Theater KW - HISTORY / General KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; I. THE EMPEROR‘S AUDIENCE: NERO AND THE THEATRICAL PARADIGM --; 2. THE INVASION OF THE STAGE: NERO TRAGOEDUS --; 3. OPPOSITIONAL INNUENDO: PERFORMANCE, ALLUSION, AND THE AUDIENCE --; 4. PRAISE AND DOUBLESPEAK: TACITUS‘ DIALOGUS AND JUVENAL'S SEVENTH SATIRE --; 5. THE ART OF SINCERITY: PLINY‘S PANEGYRICUS --; EPILOGUE --; APPENDIX 1. THE “CENA TRIMALCHIONIS” AS THEATER --; APPENDIX 2. DID MATERNUS DESTROY VATINIUS THROUGH HIS PLAY? --; APPENDIX 3. [LONGINUS‘] ON THE SUBLIME §44 AND MATERNUS‘ EULOGY --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; REVEALING ANTIQUITY; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 to reflect on the nature of power and representation, and to make the stage a paradigm for larger questions about the theatricality of power. Through these portrayals by ancient writers, Shadi Bartsch explores what happens to language and representation when all discourse is distorted by the pull of an autocratic authority. Some Roman senators, forced to become actors and dissimulators under the scrutinizing eye of the ruler, portrayed themselves and their class as the victims of regimes that are, for us, redolent of Stalinism. Other writers claimed that doublespeak--saying one thing and meaning two--was the way one could, and did, undo the constraining effects of imperial oppression. Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal all figure in Bartsch's shrewd analysis of historical and literary responses to the brute facts of empire; even the Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger now appears as a reaction against the widespread awareness of dissimulation. Informed by theories of dramaturgy, sociology, new historicism, and cultural criticism, this close reading of literary and historical texts gives us a new perspective on the politics of the Roman empire--and on the languages and representation of power UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674280991 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674280991 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674280991/original ER -