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Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero (2023)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. M. (2023). Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero. TAPA, 153(2), 459-503. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913470

This article argues that the model of the Plautine seruus callidus underpins Seneca's Atreus, whose similarities to the clever slave include verbal mastery; metatheatrical plotting; eavesdropping; and cultivating a special relationship with the audie... Read More about Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero.

Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves (2022)
Book
Bexley, E. (2022). Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108770040

Seneca's Characters addresses one of the most enduring and least theorised elements of literature: fictional character and its relationship to actual, human selfhood. Where does the boundary between character and person lie? While the characters we e... Read More about Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves.

Saturnalian Lex: Seneca's Apocolocyntosis (2022)
Book Chapter
Bexley, E. (2022). Saturnalian Lex: Seneca's Apocolocyntosis. In I. Ziogas, & E. Bexley (Eds.), Roman Law and Latin Literature (45-66). Bloomsbury

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I., & Bexley, E. (2022). Introduction. In I. Ziogas, & E. Bexley (Eds.), Roman Law and Latin Literature (1-22). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350276666.ch-001

This introduction examines the core issues and definitions involved in the study of law and literature. Following an initial overview of the field, we discuss its relevance to ancient Rome and then proceed with two in-depth case studies, of Cicero’s... Read More about Introduction.

Recognition and the Character of Seneca's Medea (2016)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. (2016). Recognition and the Character of Seneca's Medea. The Cambridge Classical Journal, 62, 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1750270516000051

This article examines the character and identity of Seneca's Medea. Focusing on the recognition scene at the end of the play, I investigate how Medea constructs herself both as a literary figure and as an implied human personality. The concluding sce... Read More about Recognition and the Character of Seneca's Medea.

Ludic Lessons: Roman Comedy on Stage and in Class (2015)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. (2015). Ludic Lessons: Roman Comedy on Stage and in Class. Classical Journal, 111(1), 112-125. https://doi.org/10.5184/classicalj.111.1.0112

This afterword offers reflections on the pedagogical value of using performance in the classroom by situating the 2012 NEH Summer Institute on Roman Comedy within the wider development of Performance/Theatre Studies as a university discipline. It als... Read More about Ludic Lessons: Roman Comedy on Stage and in Class.

What is Dramatic Recitation? (2015)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. (2015). What is Dramatic Recitation?. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 68(5), 774-793. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12341693

This article examines the literary evidence for recitations of drama in first- and early second-century C.E.Rome. It begins by contextualizing the practice of recitatio, and thereafter focuses on the central question of how a solo speaker could recit... Read More about What is Dramatic Recitation?.

Plautus and Terence in Performance (2014)
Book Chapter
Bexley, E. (2014). Plautus and Terence in Performance. In M. Fontaine, & A. Scafuro (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman comedy (462-476). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199743544.013.023

This chapter examines the stagecraft and performance of Plautus's and Terence's comedies. The first section gives an overview of the production process, discussing ancient rehearsal practices, possible performance locations, and the structural charac... Read More about Plautus and Terence in Performance.

Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays (2011)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. (2011). Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays. Trends in Classics, 3(2), 365-393. https://doi.org/10.1515/tcs.2011.016

This article analyzes the Senecan background to Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love by focusing upon both playwrights' predilections for graphic violence and sexual content. Kane's version of the Phaedra story presents sex, death and mutilation as acts that... Read More about Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays.