Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Thyestes
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Passions in Play
Author: Alessandro SchiesaroPublisher: 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.
Thyestes
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaSophocles: Fragments
Author: SophoclesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674995321
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), considered one of the world's greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers.
Seneca's Thyestes
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780891308713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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The House of Atreus
Author: AeschylusPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627930310
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Aeschylus was a Greek playwright considered to be the founder of the tragedy. Aeschylus along with Sophocles and Euripides are the three major Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Before Aeschylus, characters in a play only interacted with the chorus. Aeschylus expanded the number of actors allowing for interaction among the characters. Seven of his 92 plays have survived. The Persian invasion of Greece, which took place during his lifetime, influenced many of his plays. The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus, which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The plays were "Agamemnon," "Choephorae" (The Libation-Bearers), and the "Eumenides" (Furies).
Western Reserve Studies
Author: Seneca: Thyestes
Author: P.J. DavisPublisher: 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.
The Tragedies of Ennius: the Fragments
Author: Quintus EnniusPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae
Author: Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603840524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included.