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Author: Seneca Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141970944 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.
Author: Seneca Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141970944 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.
Author: Roland Mayer Publisher: Bristol Classical Press ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. This book introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and he sets out some of the main lines of contemporary interpretation and performance practice for this play.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521337137 Category : Drama Languages : la Pages : 234
Book Description
Seneca's Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play, particularly Seneca's use of Euripides and Ovid, and its philosophical elements grounded in Seneca's Stoicism. The introduction also discusses dramatic and rhetorical presentation, aspects of style including imagery and the transmission of the text. An unusual feature is the treatment of the influence of the Phaedra story in later European literature and music. The commentary examines Seneca's language in detail and looks at his use of earlier poetic models (Virgil and Ovid) as well as plot, characterisation and his use of myth. Although principally for students of Latin literature, this new edition will also be of interest to historians of drama and comparative literature.
Author: Gilbert Lawall Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers ISBN: 0865160163 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : la Pages : 248
Book Description
This illustrated rapid reader includes an analysis of the play, vocabulary, study questions, stage directions, and a new translation of the Hippolytus by Euripides.
Author: Charles Segal Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400885760 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0192807064 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 277
Book Description
This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.
Author: Seneca
Author: Seneca
Author: Roland Mayer
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Gilbert Lawall
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Charles Segal
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus)
Author: Euripides