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Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Gregory A. Staley
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-14 - Publisher: OUP USA

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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
Seneca's Drama
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Norman T. Pratt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines
Six Tragedies
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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 includ
Tragic Seneca
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: A. J. Boyle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 Cambridge Companion to Seneca
Language: en
Pages: 379
Authors: Shadi Bartsch
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.