The Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History

by Helen Slaney

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198736762
• ISBN13: 9780198736769
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.6"