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Latin 205
Report Topics
All members of the technical crew will give a 15-20 minute report
during the second week of block on their area of expertise after reading
the appropriate secondary material. These reports should accomplish two
things:
- inform the rest of the class about Roman theatrical practice in your
area.
- propose specific suggestions for the class performance.
Each group should present to the class a written summary/outline of the material they read
and a written report on the suggestions for the performance.
Consult the bibliography
for the complete reference. Duckworth and Beare are on reserve at Cole
Library. All oral reports benefit from some sort of audio-visual aid,
whether it is an outline of your presentation, pictures, plans, drawings,
or something else. Everyone from the group should be familiar with all the readings and should contribute to the class
presentation. Reports should not be longer than 20 minutes so that there
is ample time for questions and comments.
Costumes
- Saunders, ch 1;
- Beare, Ch.24, "Costumes";
- Bieber, look up references to Costumes in Roman comedy in the index;
- Wiles, Ch 7;
- Sebesta and Bonfante;
- Gillingham and Baade
Make-up
- Wiles, Chs 5-6;
- Beare, Ch 24, "Masks" and App. I
Music
- Duckworth, Ch 13, "Meter and Song";
- Beare, Ch 26, "Music and Metre";
- Anderson, Ch 5, "Comedy by the Numbers"
- Groton, "Rhyme,
Women, and Song: Getting in Tune with Plautus"
- Moore, "Facing the Music: Character and Musical Accompaniment
in Roman Comedy," esp. pp. 130-43, 151-53
- relevant portions of Law, Studies
Technical Director
- Duckworth, Ch 5, "Stage conventions and Techniques";
- Slater, Ch 8, "Convention and Reaction"
Publicity/House Managers
- Duckworth, Ch 4, "Presentation and Staging," pp. 73-79
- Beare, Ch 20, "Organization of Roman Theater" and Chs 21-22,
"Seating and Spectators" and App. A
- Chalmers, "Plautus and his Audience"
- Gruen, "Plautus and the Public Stage," 83-94
Props
- Ketterer, "Stage Properties"
- Beare, Ch 23, "Stage and Actor's House" and App. C,E,F,G,H
Scenery
- Duckworth, Ch 4, "Presentation and Staging," pp. 79-88
- Beare, Ch 23, "The Stage and the Actors' House," and App.
E, F, G
- Beacham, Ch 3, "Early Roman Stages," esp. the part of the
chapter where he discusses stages from the time of Plautus
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