Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Although the 'Thyestes' is widely acknowledged to be one of Seneca's most powerful tragedies, there has until now been no modern commentary on the play in any language. My principal aim has thus been to make this extraordinary work more widely accessible and so contribute to a greater appreciation of its quality. The 'Thyestes' seems to me an even better and richer play now that it did when I embarked on this commentary; I hope that the pleasure I have had in exploring it will be reflected in what I have written, and that my enthusiasm will offer some compensation for my failures of understanding." -- preface, p. [ix].
Seneca's Thyestes
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Although the 'Thyestes' is widely acknowledged to be one of Seneca's most powerful tragedies, there has until now been no modern commentary on the play in any language. My principal aim has thus been to make this extraordinary work more widely accessible and so contribute to a greater appreciation of its quality. The 'Thyestes' seems to me an even better and richer play now that it did when I embarked on this commentary; I hope that the pleasure I have had in exploring it will be reflected in what I have written, and that my enthusiasm will offer some compensation for my failures of understanding." -- preface, p. [ix].
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Although the 'Thyestes' is widely acknowledged to be one of Seneca's most powerful tragedies, there has until now been no modern commentary on the play in any language. My principal aim has thus been to make this extraordinary work more widely accessible and so contribute to a greater appreciation of its quality. The 'Thyestes' seems to me an even better and richer play now that it did when I embarked on this commentary; I hope that the pleasure I have had in exploring it will be reflected in what I have written, and that my enthusiasm will offer some compensation for my failures of understanding." -- preface, p. [ix].
Thyestes
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Passions in Play
Author: Alessandro Schiesaro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139440217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139440217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.
Seneca: Thyestes
Author: P.J. Davis
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Written in Nero's Rome in about AD62, "Thyestes" is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies. Peter Davies explores the key aspects of the play including the circumstances of its composition, its performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Written in Nero's Rome in about AD62, "Thyestes" is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies. Peter Davies explores the key aspects of the play including the circumstances of its composition, its performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists.
Six Tragedies
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.
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.
The Tragedies of Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Seeing Seneca Whole
Author: Katharina Volk
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This volume contains ten essays on Seneca the Younger. Approaching the Roman writer from various angles, the authors endeavor both to illuminate individual aspects of Seneca’s enormous output and to discern common themes among the different genres practiced by him.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This volume contains ten essays on Seneca the Younger. Approaching the Roman writer from various angles, the authors endeavor both to illuminate individual aspects of Seneca’s enormous output and to discern common themes among the different genres practiced by him.
Hamlet and the Acting of Revenge
Author: Peter Mercer
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877451716
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877451716
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Seneca: Thyestes
Author: Peter J. Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781472540096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781472540096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Seneca in English
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140446678
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A selection of translations, adaptations, and imitations by various authors from the 1550s to the 1990s.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140446678
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A selection of translations, adaptations, and imitations by various authors from the 1550s to the 1990s.