DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychomachia, Bad Life, Visual Culture
14 Oct 2015
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Roman drama: like the greeks in tragedy and comedy, but more violent in tragedies and in latin. Theatre and performance: clowns, juggler, troubladours, mimes, circuses, gladiators (innovative with gladiators), tournaments, acrobats, bards. Christianity emerges as a forbidden religion in the roman empire (until. Drama is anti-christian due to it being a roman practice and so had to be affiliated with the roman gods. Within the christian world, there was no practice of drama no written plays or performances from the end of the roman plays (0ad-1000ad) Re-emergence of drama in the same way greeks used to take on drama: emerges from easter sunday service, written record of the easter sunday service play: bishop ethelwold of. The church performance then turn into actual plays. Written (and performed) in monasteries and nunneries. By clergy, for clergy, not for public performance part of a religious practice. Hrotsvitha of gangersheim (c. 935 c. 1002): theologian, composer, dramatist (ordo virtutum)
