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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eric Dodson RobinsonPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.668kg ISBN: 9789004266469ISBN 10: 9004266461 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 11 February 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents List of Contributors 1 Introduction Eric Dodson-Robinson Part 1 - Antiquity 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 Part 2 - Renaissance and Early Modern 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 101 Tomas Martinez Romero 7 The Reception of the Tragedies of Seneca in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in France Florence de Caigny, Translated by Eric Dodson-Robinson 8 Germany and the Netherlands: Tragic Seneca in Scholarship and on Stage Joachim Harst Early `English Seneca': From `Coterie' Translations to the Popular Stage Jessica Winston 10 Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity Patrick Gray Part 3 - Seneca in the Modern Age and Beyond 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 Siobhan McElduff IndexReviewsThe collection provides a concise yet thorough picture of Seneca's tragedies throughout the centuries and contributes both to contextualizing the history of classical reception and to understanding how European drama developed and continues to reinvent itself today. Mary Hamil Gilbert, Religious Studies Review 42 (2016) 3. [U]n precieux outil de reference pour tous ceux qui s'interessent a l'histoire des tragedies et du theatre latin en general, a la diffusion de Seneque, a la circulation des idees et des formes artistiques antiques du Moyen-Age a nos jours.(...) Nous saluerons la clarte de la presentation ainsi que le soin apporte a l'orthographe et a la ponctuation, tel que nous n'avons releve aucune coquille. P. Pare-Rey, BMCR 2017.07.49 [A] praiseworthy and beneficial publication, which should also be valued for the English translations from Latin and other languages - this makes the book accessible to a wider circle of readers. (...) [T]hroughout the collection of all texts a red thread weaves, bringing the fascinating realization that, with the exception of certain periods (middle ages and partly 19th century, when his influences was temporarily muted), Seneca is a perennial contemporary and that his drama is like a cracked mirror in which almost any unsettled age finds its reflection (R. Remshardt, p. 300). Daniela Cadkova, Eirene LIV 2018. The collection provides a concise yet thorough picture of Seneca's tragedies throughout the centuries and contributes both to contextualizing the history of classical reception and to understanding how European drama developed and continues to reinvent itself today. - Mary Hamil Gilbert, in: Religious Studies Review 42 (2016) 3 [U]n precieux outil de reference pour tous ceux qui s'interessent a l'histoire des tragedies et du theatre latin en general, a la diffusion de Seneque, a la circulation des idees et des formes artistiques antiques du Moyen-Age a nos jours.(...) Nous saluerons la clarte de la presentation ainsi que le soin apporte a l'orthographe et a la ponctuation, tel que nous n'avons releve aucune coquille. - P. Pare-Rey, in: BMCR 2017.07.49 [A] praiseworthy and beneficial publication, which should also be valued for the English translations from Latin and other languages - this makes the book accessible to a wider circle of readers. (...) [T]hroughout the collection of all texts a red thread weaves, bringing the fascinating realization that, with the exception of certain periods (middle ages and partly 19th century, when his influences was temporarily muted), Seneca is a perennial contemporary and that his drama is like a cracked mirror in which almost any unsettled age finds its reflection (R. Remshardt, p. 300). - Daniela Cadkova, in: Eirene LIV 2018 Author InformationEric Dodson-Robinson, Ph.D. (2009), University of Illinois, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His publications explore violence and agency, especially in Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy. Contributors are: Florence de Caigny, Francesco Citti, Peter J. Davis, Eric Dodson-Robinson, Patrick Gray, Gianni Guastalla, Joachim Harst, Siobhan McElduff, Tomas Martinez Romero, Ralf Remshardt, Helen Slaney, Christopher Star, Christopher Trinacty, and Jessica Winston. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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