The Passions in Play
Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 September 2003
- ISBN 9780521818018
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 235x159x23 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Critical analysis of Senecan tragedy with a particular emphasis on his most accomplished play.
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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.
'... this book will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in imperial Latin literature.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction; 1. Poetry, passions and knowledge; 2. Staging Thyestes; 3. A craftier Tereus; 4. Atreus rex; 5. Fata se vertunt retro; 6. The poetics of passions; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of passages cited; General index.
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