Mordeglia, Caterina (2012) Gruppi, "folle", popolo sulla scena comica terenziana. Collana Labirinti; 144 . Trento : Università degli Studi di Trento, pp. 45-60. ISBN 978-88-8443-445-6
Abstract
This essay analyses the dramatic and scenic role of groups of persons, people and crowds in the theatre of the Latin poet Terence. The exam of his comedies reveals how it’s not rare to find in Terence, in contrast to the ancient rhetorical treatises, six or seven actors together on the stage with parodic, structural or rhetoric effects. Sometimes the main actors are followed by not quantifiable groups of slaves, soldiers or, also, chorister and flautists, especially during the last scenes. Groups and people may also be evoked on the stage by the protagonist’s antinaturalistic acting. This feature, together with the metatheathrical role of the spectators that appears during the comedies’ prologues, is perhaps Terence’s main legacy to the European theatre of the following centuries.
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