Contexto escénico del Eunuchus terenciano

Abstract

The written versions of Latin comedy present only the literary text (text A) not stage directions nor other scenic indications (text B), which were not separately noted by ancient dramatists. Therefore, Terence (and Plautus) had to express in a single text —the literary text— what is meant by the stage directions in modern times. The authors of this paper try to fix the boundaries of both texts, and to infer the stage directions for Eunuchus from the literary text. Thus they examine all the data on the characters, references to staging, intonation, mime and gesture, actors’ movements, scenic situation, costume, that may help reconstruct Eunuchus according to Terence’s original conception.