Brill's companion to the reception of Senecan tragedy : scholarly, theatrical and literary receptions /

In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy , Eric Dodson-Robinson incorporates essays by specialists working across disciplines and national literatures into a subtle narrative tracing the diverse scholarly, literary and theatrical receptions of Seneca's tragedies. The traged...

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Other Authors: Dodson-Robinson, Eric.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 5.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online III, ISBN: 9789004249301.

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Call Number: PA6675

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introduction /
  • Eric Dodson-Robinson
  • 2 Imago res mortua est: Senecan Intertextuality /
  • Christopher Trinacty
  • 3 Seneca Tragicus and Stoicism /
  • Christopher Star
  • 4 Senecan Tragedy and the Politics of Flavian Literature /
  • Peter J. Davis
  • 5 Seneca Rediscovered: Recovery of Texts, Reinvention of a Genre /
  • Gianni Guastella
  • 6 The Reception of Seneca in the Crowns of Aragon and Castile in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries /
  • Tomàs Martínez Romero
  • 7 The Reception of the Tragedies of Seneca in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in France /
  • Florence de Caigny and Eric Dodson-Robinson
  • 8 Germany and the Netherlands: Tragic Seneca in Scholarship and on Stage /
  • Joachim Harst
  • 9 Early 'English Seneca': From 'Coterie' Translations to the Popular Stage /
  • Jessica Winston
  • 10 Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity /
  • Patrick Gray
  • 11 Senecan Gothic /
  • Helen Slaney
  • 12 Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Receptions of Seneca Tragicus /
  • Francesco Citti
  • 13 Seneca Our Contemporary: The Modern Theatrical Reception of Senecan Tragedy /
  • Ralf Remshardt
  • 14 Rereading Seneca: The Twenty-First Century and Beyond /
  • Siobhán McElduff
  • Index.