The Senecan aesthetic : a performance history

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Label

The Senecan aesthetic : a performance history

Title remainder

a performance history

Statement of responsibility

Helen Slaney

Creator

• Slaney, Helen, 1981-

Contributor

• Oxford University Press

Author

• Slaney, Helen, 1981-

Publisher

• Oxford University Press

Subject

• Latin drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
• Electronic resources

Language

eng

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'

Member of

• Classical presences

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PA6685

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Classical presences

Target audience

specialized