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Author: Ronald W. Tobin Publisher: ISBN: 9781469647456 Category : French drama (Tragedy) Languages : en Pages :
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This study brings to light the significant and long-obscured influence of the Roman dramatist and philosopher, Seneca, on the works of Racine. After describing the positive characteristics of Senecan tragedy and the crucial role it played in French drama from Jodelle through Corneille, Ronald W. Tobin analyzes Racine's unique adoption and absorption of Senecan material into his own plays, thereby extending the dimensions of his dramatic art. In the book's Conclusion, some theories are advanced for Racine's well-known silence about his debt to Seneca.
Author: Ronald W. Tobin Publisher: ISBN: 9781469647456 Category : French drama (Tragedy) Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This study brings to light the significant and long-obscured influence of the Roman dramatist and philosopher, Seneca, on the works of Racine. After describing the positive characteristics of Senecan tragedy and the crucial role it played in French drama from Jodelle through Corneille, Ronald W. Tobin analyzes Racine's unique adoption and absorption of Senecan material into his own plays, thereby extending the dimensions of his dramatic art. In the book's Conclusion, some theories are advanced for Racine's well-known silence about his debt to Seneca.
Author: Ronald W. Tobin Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
This study brings to light the significant and long-obscured influence of the Roman dramatist and philosopher, Seneca, on the works of Racine. After describing the positive characteristics of Senecan tragedy and the crucial role it played in French drama from Jodelle through Corneille, Ronald W. Tobin analyzes Racine's unique adoption and absorption of Senecan material into his own plays, thereby extending the dimensions of his dramatic art. In the book's Conclusion, some theories are advanced for Racine's well-known silence about his debt to Seneca.
Author: A. J. Boyle Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134802315 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus, analysing the declamatory form of the plays, their rhetoric, interiority, stagecraft and spectacle, dramatic, ideological and moral structure and their overt theatricality. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture. The later chapters focus on Seneca's influence on Italian, English and French drama of the Renaissance. A.J. Boyle argues that tragedians such as Cinthio, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Corneille, and Racine owe a debt to Seneca that goes beyond allusion, dramatic form and the treatment of tyranny and revenge to the development of the tragic sensibility and the metatheatrical mind. Tragic Seneca attempts to restore Seneca to a central position in the European literary tradition. It will provide readers and directors of Seneca's plays with the essential critical guide to their intellectual, cultural and dramatic complexity.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781022474802 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume contains two classic plays of tragedy from ancient Greece and Rome, reimagined for the French stage by 17th century playwright Jean Racine. Hippolytus explores the consequences of forbidden love and the conflicts between duty and desire, while Phaedra depicts the tragic downfall of a queen consumed by passion and guilt. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Małgorzata Budzowska Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: 9783631633052 Category : Emotions Languages : en Pages : 0
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This award-winning book deals with the ethical aspect of emotions in human decision making in literature. The broadest description of the process of 'emotional obsession' can be found in Euripides' tragedy of Phaedra, but the topos can be found in the tragedies of Roman philosopher Seneca and modern French poet Jean Racine, as well.
Author: Seneca Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141970944 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 346
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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
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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: Gordon Pocock Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 340
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This study highlights that both Corneille and Racine were living writers, struggling to create developing forms within the strait-jacket of neo-classical decorum.
Author: Ronald W. Tobin
Author: Ronald W. Tobin
Author: Ronald W. Tobin
Author: A. J. Boyle
Author: Ronald William Francis Tobin
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Małgorzata Budzowska
Author: Seneca
Author: Euripides
Author: Roland Mayer
Author: Gordon Pocock