Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hecuba (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Two Tragedies of Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hecuba (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Two Tragedies of Seneca: Medea and The Daughters of Troy
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
"Two Tragedies of Seneca: Medea and The Daughters of Troy" by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (translated by Ella Isabel Harris). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Tragedies of Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy
Author: Gregory A. StaleyPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195387430
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The question of why Seneca wrote tragedy has been debated since at least the 13th century. Since Seneca was a Stoic, critics assumed he wrote with the standard Stoic theory of literature as education in philosophy in mind. This book argues that Seneca was influenced by Aristotle's famous defense of tragedy against Plato's critique.
Six Tragedies
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: 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.
Tragedies
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674996021
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two Faces of Oedipus
Author: Frederick AhlPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801473975
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles' play was first performed, Seneca composed a fine, but neglected and often disparaged Latin tragedy on the same subject, which, in some ways, comes closer to our common understanding of the Oedipus myth. Now, modern readers can compare the two versions, in new translations by Frederick Ahl.Balancing poetry and clarity, yet staying scrupulously close to the original texts, Ahl's English versions are designed to be both read and performed, and are alert to the literary and historical complexities of each. In approaching Sophocles anew, Ahl is careful to preserve the richly allusive nature and rhetorical power of the Greek, including the intricate use of language that gives the original its brilliant force. For Ahl, Seneca's tragedy is vastly and intriguingly different from that of Sophocles, and a poetic masterpiece in its own right. Seneca takes us inside the mind of Oedipus in ways that Sophocles does not, making his inner conflicts a major part of the drama itself in his soliloquies and asides. Two Faces of Oedipus opens with a wide-ranging introduction that examines the conflicting traditions of Oedipus in Greek literature, the different theatrical worlds of Sophocles and Seneca, and how cultural and political differences between Athenian democracy and Roman imperial rule affect the nature and conditions under which the two tragedies were composed. This book brings two dramatic traditions into conversation while providing elegant, accurate, and exciting new versions of Sophocles' and Seneca's tragedies.
Two Tragedies
Author: Jean RacineThe Cambridge Companion to Seneca
Author: Shadi BartschPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.
The Tragedies of Seneca
Author: SenecaPublisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420943108
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BCE - 65 AD), known commonly as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is most noted for developing a new type of drama, the Senecan tragedy, which differed greatly from Greek tragedy. While the Greek tragedies were expansive and periodic, Senecan tragedies are more succinct and balanced. In Senecan tragedy, characters do not undergo much change, there is little or no catharsis in the end, and violence is acted out on stage instead of being recalled by characters to the audience. Often, Seneca's plays contain pronounced elements of the macabre, grotesque, and even the supernatural. Not only have these plays withstood the test of time, but they essentially fueled the growth of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in England many centuries after their creation. Seneca's work exerted significant influence on writers like Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare, to name a few.