The Supernatural in Seneca's Tragedies ...
Author | : Mary Victoria Braginton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Author | : Mary Victoria Braginton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Author | : Mary V. Braginton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Latin drama (Tragedy) |
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Author | : Mary V. Braginton |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1933 |
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Author | : Seneca |
Publisher | : Digireads.com Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781420943108 |
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.
Author | : Charles Edward Whitmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Supernatural in literature |
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Author | : Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Alessandra Zanobi |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472512634 |
Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary critics. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to our understanding of Seneca's tragic art by demonstrating that elements which have long puzzled scholars can be attributed to the influence of pantomime. The work argues that certain formal features which depart from the conventions of fifth-century Attic drama can be explained by the influence of, and interaction with, this more popular genre. The work includes a detailed and systematic analysis of the specific pantomime-inspired features of Seneca's tragedies: the loose dramatic structure, the presence of “running commentaries” (minute descriptions of characters undergoing emotional strains or performing specific actions), of monologues of self-analysis, and of narrative set-pieces. Relevant to the culture of Roman imperial culture more generally, Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime includes an outline of the general features of pantomime as a genre. The work shows that the influence of sub-literary-genres such as pantomime and mime, the sister art of pantomime, can be traced in several Roman writers whose literary production was antecedent or contemporary with Seneca's. Furthermore, the work sheds light on the interaction between sub-literary genres of a performative nature such as mime and pantomime and more literary ones, an aspect of Latin culture which previous scholarship has tended to overlook. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime provides an original contribution to the understanding of the impact of pantomime on Roman literary culture and of controversial and little-understood features of Senecan tragedies.
Author | : John William Cunliffe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Seneca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2020-02-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781420966978 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 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. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, includes the ten tragedies thought to be authored by Seneca, and follows the translations of Ella Isabel Harris.
Author | : Gregory A. Staley |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2010-01-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0195387430 |
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.