Elizabethan Seneca

Author : James Ker,Jessica Winston
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780947623982

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Elizabethan Seneca by James Ker,Jessica Winston Pdf

In the early Elizabethan period, nine of the ten tragedies attributed to the ancient Roman statesman, philosopher, and playwright Seneca (c. 1 BCE-65 CE) were translated for the first time into English, and these translations shaped Seneca's dramatic legacy as it would be known to later authors and playwrights. This edition enables readers to appreciate the distinct style and aims of three milestone translations: Jasper Heywood's 'Troas' (1559) and 'Thyestes' (1560), and John Studley's 'Agamemnon' (1566). The plays are presented in modern spelling and accompanied by critical notes clarifying the translators' approaches to rendering Seneca in English. The introduction provides important context, including a survey of the transmission and reception of Seneca from the first through to the sixteenth century and an analysis and comparison of the style of the three translations. James Ker is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Deaths of Seneca (2009), A Seneca Reader (2011), and articles on Greek and Roman literature. Jessica Winston is Professor of English at Idaho State University. She is the author of numerous articles on early Elizabethan literature and the Elizabethan reception of Seneca.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy by Anonim Pdf

Author : John William Cunliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English drama
ISBN : UIUC:30112075859576

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The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy by John William Cunliffe Pdf

Author : John William Cunliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English drama
ISBN : CHI:19477775

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The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy by John William Cunliffe Pdf

Author : Frank Laurence Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : English drama
ISBN : UVA:X000936326

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Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy by Frank Laurence Lucas Pdf

Author : Fredson Thayer Bowers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400877300

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Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642 by Fredson Thayer Bowers Pdf

A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Irving Ribner.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136566929

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The English History Play in the age of Shakespeare by Irving Ribner. Pdf

First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642 and relates this development to Renaissance historiography and Elizabethan political theory.

Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature by George Watson,Ian Roy Willison Pdf

Author : Christopher Star
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786720382

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Seneca by Christopher Star Pdf

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and matricidal emperor, and compelled to commit suicide. Discredited through collusion, or at least association, with a notorious and tyrannical regime, Seneca's ideas were for a time also considered derivative of Greek stoicism and thus inferior to the real thing. In this first in-depth introduction to be published for many years, Christopher Star shows what a remarkable statesman, dramatist and philosopher his subject actually was. Seneca's original contributions to political philosophy and the philosophy of the emotions were considerable. He was a favourite authority of Tertullian, who saw Seneca as proto-believer and early humanist. And he is a key figure in the history of ideas and the Renaissance, as well as in literature and drama. This new survey does full justice to his significance.

Author : R. Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191074172

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The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare by R. Malcolm Smuts Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in historical research on the early modern period that can inform close analysis of literature. Different sections examine political history at both the national and local levels; relationships between intellectual culture and the early modern political imagination; relevant aspects of religious and social history; and facets of the histories of architecture, the visual arts and music. Topics treated include the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere' and its relationship to drama during Shakespeare's lifetime; the role of historical narratives in shaping the period's views on the workings of politics; attitudes about the role of emotion in social life; cultures of honour and shame and the rituals and literary forms through which they found expression; crime and murder; and visual expressions of ideas of moral disorder and natural monstrosity, in printed images as well as garden architecture.

Author : Curtis Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108496179

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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy by Curtis Perry Pdf

Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.

Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108479288

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Studying English Literature in Context by Paul Poplawski Pdf

From early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection of thirty-one essays sets literary texts in their historical contexts.

Author : Jessica Winston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191083945

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Lawyers at Play by Jessica Winston Pdf

Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how did the Inns come to be literary centres in the first place, and why were they especially vibrant at particular times? Early modernists have long understood that urban setting and institutional environment were central to this phenomenon: in the vibrant world of London, educated men with time on their hands turned to literary pastimes for something to do. Lawyers at Play proposes an additional, more essential dynamic: the literary culture of the Inns intensified in decades of profound transformation in the legal profession. Focusing on the first decade of Elizabeth's reign, the period when a large literary network first developed around the societies, this study demonstrates that the literary surge at this time developed out of and responded to a period of rapid expansion in the legal profession and in the career prospects of members. Poetry, translation, and performance were recreational pastimes; however, these activities also defined and elevated the status of inns-of-court men as qualified, learned, and ethical participants in England's 'legal magistracy': those lawyers, judges, justices of the peace, civic office holders, town recorders, and gentleman landholders who managed and administered local and national governance of England. Lawyers at Play maps the literary terrain of a formative but understudied period in the English Renaissance, but it also provides the foundation for an argument that goes beyond the 1560s to provide a framework for understanding the connections between the literary and legal cultures of the Inns over the whole of the early modern period.

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0801849322

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Seneca by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pdf

Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia. Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions—if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world—the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.

Author : Dana F. Sutton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004328310

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Seneca on the stage by Dana F. Sutton Pdf

In the absence of the stage directions employed by their modern equivalents, ancient playwrights were obliged to ''encode'' information into their texts that can be described as implicit stage directions. It is the presence of such information that permits modern ''production criticism,'' intended to determine how ancient plays were meant to be staged. Since the early nineteenth century, it has been debated whether Seneca's tragedies were or were not written for stage production. Seneca's dramatic texts contain material that looks precisely like the implicit stage directions found in all other ancient drama, and when his plays are subjected to production criticism, it emerges that they make sound dramaturgic sense. Also, Seneca avails himself of the same artificial and sometimes irrational dramatic conventions used by other ancient playwrights, a fact often ignored by those who argue that Seneca was only writing plays for reading or recitation. The internal evidence of the plays offers much to support, and little to contradict, the idea that his plays were written with the stage in mind.