Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy The Influence of Seneca

Name: Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy The Influence of Seneca
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ISBN: 9780198112648

ISBN-10: 0198112645

ISBN-13: 9780198112648

Edition: 1992

Authors: Robert S. Miola

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This book charts the influence of Seneca - both as specific text and inherited tradition - through an analysis of Shakespeare's tragedies. Discerning patterns in previously attested borrowings and discovering new indebtedness, it presents an integrated and comprehensive assessment. Familiar methods of source study and a sophisticated understanding of intertextuality are employed to re-evaluate the much maligned Seneca in the light of his Greek antecedents, Renaissance translations and commentaries, and dramatic adaptations, especially those of Chapman, Jonson, Marston, Garnier, Cinthio, and Dolce. Three broad categories organize the discussion - Senecan revenge, tyranny, and furore - and…

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/6/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 234
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Robert S. Miola is Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair of English at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Shakespeare's Reading, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence, Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca, and The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, as well as dozens of articles on sixteenth-century English literature.



Abbreviations



Heavy Seneca



Senecan Revenge


Titus Andronicus


Hamlet



Senecan Tyranny


Richard III


Macbeth



Senecan Furor


Othello


King Lear



Light Seneca


A Midsummer Night's Dream


Tragicomedy


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