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SUMMARY:The Orator as Stage Director in Roman Rhetoric. A Case Study of Ci
 cero's Perorations - Bogdan Cristea
DTSTART:20141021T193000Z
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CONTACT:Paulina Rowicka
DESCRIPTION:Initially perceived as an element of vulgarity in rhetoric\, t
 heatricality became a key feature of Roman oratory. Therefore I aim to exa
 mine the information provided by Greek and Latin rhetorical treatises with
  reference to the role of stage direction in the conception and delivery o
 f a speech and subsequently to analyse the perorations of Cicero’s judic
 ial speeches from a theatrical perspective\, i.e. to look more closely int
 o those elements of stage management which the orator’s performance may 
 have actually involved on the stage of the trials.\n \nIn the reconstituti
 on of the stage management of Cicero’s perorations it is imperative to e
 stablish a hierarchy of the theatrical scenarios according to the degree o
 f probability of their actual performance. The first level could be the im
 mediate stage directions\, about which we can safely say that\, if they ar
 e authentic\, they were followed accordingly. \n\nThe second level contain
 s certain scenarios\, about which we cannot say for sure that they were ac
 tually being performed while the speeches were being pronounced. All these
  scenarios require complex theatrical abilities both from the orator and t
 he other participants in the rhetorical / dramatic act and therefore the d
 egree of likelihood of their performance is lower. I suggest that there wa
 s a common terminology specific to the perorations\, the source of which m
 ay have been theatre or\, more precisely\, tragic plays. I believe this em
 otional vocabulary\, however clichéd it might have been\, to describe aut
 hentic performances in the case of the scenarios involving the client and 
 his family\, but I doubt that the intensity of the theatrics attributed by
  Cicero to the judges and to himself was exactly as reported in the writte
 n version of the speeches.\n
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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