Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition
A.j. Boyle
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. 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.
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Année:
1997
Edition:
1
Editeur::
Routledge
Langue:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
0415124956
ISBN 13:
9780415124959
Fichier:
PDF, 1.08 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1997
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