Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition
Author: Gordon Braden
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780300032536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon Braden
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780300032536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Buckley Charlton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. J. Boyle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1134802315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Lorraine Helms
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1512816817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book "English Seneca read by candlelight," wrote the Elizabethan author Thomas Nashe, "will afford you whole Hamlets." In the early decades of the twentieth century, literary and theater historians took Nashe at his word, finding Senecan tragedy at the source of Renaissance drama. More recently, critics have been inclined to dismiss traces of classical antiquity as a superficial veneer on a drama derived from medieval traditions. Lorraine Helms revisits this terrain to explore the rich and various ways in which classical learning shaped the theatrical culture of the Renaissance. She uncovers the practical advice on acting and stagecraft to be found in the writings of ancient rhetoricians; reconstructs the extraordinary circumstances under which an English woman first rendered Euripides into her native language; and ponders the precedents in antiquity for Elizabethan portrayals of prostitution and female martyrdom.
Author: Viviana Comensoli
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780252067303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.
Author: Emma Buckley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-03
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1118316533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent years Makes much important research available in English for the first time Features a balance of new research with established critical lines Offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies Includes a mix of established scholars and groundbreaking new voices Includes detailed maps and illustrations
Author: Shadi Bartsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1316239896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation. The authors place Seneca in the context of the ancient world and trace his impressive legacy in literature, art, religion, and politics from Neronian Rome to the early modern period. Through critical discussion of the recent proliferation of Senecan studies, this volume compellingly illustrates how the perception of Seneca and his particular type of Stoicism has evolved over time. It provides a comprehensive overview that will benefit students and scholars in classics, comparative literature, history, philosophy and political theory, as well as general readers.
Author: Curtis Perry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108496172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.