The Senecan aesthetic : a performance history /
Slaney, Helen,1981-author.
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, seasoned with French neoclassical rigour, and inflated by Restoration flamboyance. In the mid-18th century, the pincer movement of naturalism and philhellenism began to squeeze Seneca off the stage until August Wilhelm Schlegel's shrill denunciation silenced what he called its 'frigid bombast'.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index.
The open book -- 'Excess in her disease" -- Nourished on blood -- The great repression -- Hypertragedy -- Seneca censored -- Signalling through the flames -- Seneca in '68.
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, seasoned with French neoclassical rigour, and inflated by Restoration flamboyance. In the mid-18th century, the pincer movement of naturalism and philhellenism began to squeeze Seneca off the stage until August Wilhelm Schlegel's shrill denunciation silenced what he called its 'frigid bombast'.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus)
Latin drama (Tragedy)
Theater