Il revival dei vecchi successi

The great authors of the archaic Roman theatre usually performed their plays only once, because the audience was always looking for something new. Only in exceptional cases was a comedy or a tragedy repeated. However, between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, Livius Andronicus, Ennius, Afranius, Accius, Naevius, Plautus, Terence, Caecilius, Turpilius and other playwrights were the subject of major revivals and became true ‘classics’ of the stage with new productions and even major revisions of the texts. It seems, then, that genres such as the fabula palliata survived o