Seneca
Subtitle: The Tragedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation)
Contributors: David R. Slavitt (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801849312
Subjects: Drama texts: classical, early & medieval; consort of Nero, Emperor of Ro; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,; Latin Literature; Plays / Drama; Latin; Performing Arts/Dance; ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Translations into English; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome,; Drama; Mythology, Classical; Octavia,; ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D; ca. 42-62
First sentence: In 1543 Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio, the influential Italian playwright, critic, and writer of novelle (from whom Shakespeare borrowed the plots of Othello and Measure for Measure), judiciously summarized the Renaissance view of Seneca's dramas: "In almost all his tragedies he surpassed (in as far as I can judge) all the Greeks who ever wrote-in wisdom, in gravity, in decorum, in majesty, and in memorable aphorism."