The Dramaturgy Of Senecan Tragedy
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The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy
Author | : Thomas Kohn |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780472118571 |
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Fresh insight into the dramaturgical practices of the Younger Seneca
Senecan Tragedy
Author | : Anna Lydia Motto,John R. Clark |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066086433 |
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The Senecan Aesthetic
Author | : Helen Slaney |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198736769 |
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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 rigor, and inflated by Restoration flamboyance. In the mid-eighteenth 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." The Senecan aesthetic, repressed but still present, staged its return in the twentieth century in the work of Antonin Artaud, who regarded Seneca as "the greatest tragedian of history." This volume restores Seneca to a canonical position among the playwrights of antiquity, recognizing him as one of the most important, most revered, and most reviled, and in doing so reveals how theory, practice, and scholarship have always been interdependent and inseparable.
Seneca s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime
Author | : Alessandra Zanobi |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472506085 |
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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.
The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy
Author | : John William Cunliffe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112075859576 |
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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy
Author | : Curtis Perry |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108496179 |
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Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.
Seneca on the stage
Author | : Dana F. Sutton |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004328310 |
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In the absence of the stage directions employed by their modern equivalents, ancient playwrights were obliged to ''encode'' information into their texts that can be described as implicit stage directions. It is the presence of such information that permits modern ''production criticism,'' intended to determine how ancient plays were meant to be staged. Since the early nineteenth century, it has been debated whether Seneca's tragedies were or were not written for stage production. Seneca's dramatic texts contain material that looks precisely like the implicit stage directions found in all other ancient drama, and when his plays are subjected to production criticism, it emerges that they make sound dramaturgic sense. Also, Seneca avails himself of the same artificial and sometimes irrational dramatic conventions used by other ancient playwrights, a fact often ignored by those who argue that Seneca was only writing plays for reading or recitation. The internal evidence of the plays offers much to support, and little to contradict, the idea that his plays were written with the stage in mind.
Brill s Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004310988 |
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In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Dodson-Robinson incorporates interdisciplinary essays tracing how Western writers from antiquity to the present have transformed Senecan drama to develop competing tragic visions of agency and the human place in the universe.