The Senecan aesthetic : a performance history /
Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the dramaturgical development of European theatre. 'The Senecan Aesthetic' surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan tragedy has been stage...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Classical presences.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the dramaturgical development of European theatre. 'The Senecan Aesthetic' surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan tragedy has been staged, from the Renaissance up to the present day: plundered for neo-Latin declamation and seeping into the blood-soaked revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's contemporaries, seasoned with French neoclassical rigour, and inflated by Restoration flamboyance. In the mid-18th century, the pincer movement of naturalism and philhellenism began to squeeze Seneca off the stage until August Wilhelm Schlegel's shrill denunciation silenced what he called its 'frigid bombast'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191800412 0191800414 9780191056437 019105643X |