Seneca's Drama

Name: Seneca's Drama
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ISBN: 9780080781556

ISBN-10: 0080781551

ISBN-13: 9780080781556

Edition: 1983

Authors: Norman T. Pratt

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With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society. Seneca's drama shows the nature of this society and uses freely the declamatory rhetorical techniques familiar to any well-educated Roman. But the most important element, Pratt argues, is Neo-Stoicism, including technical aspects of this philosophy that previously have escaped notice. With these ingredients Seneca transformed the themes and characters inherited from Greek drama, casting them in a form that so radically departs from the…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 229
Language: English

Norman T. Pratt is the author of Dramatic Suspense in Seneca and in His Greek Precursors.