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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Slaney (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.506kg ISBN: 9780198736769ISBN 10: 0198736762 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 10 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Editions and Citations Introduction i. Senecan, Performance, Reception ii. What's Senecan About Seneca? 1. The Open Book i. In Defence of Student Theatre ii. Neo-Latin Performance Practice iii. Progne iv. Theatre in Education 2. 'Excess is her Disease' i. Translating the Tenne Tragedies ii. English(ed) Seneca iii. Jacobean Variations 3. Nourished on Blood i. Enter the Diva ii. The Art of Tragedy iii. Realisme Senequien iv. Translation and Adaptation v. The Merveilleux 4. The Great Repression i. Tragedy Regulated ii. Phaedra/Phedre 5. Hypertragedy i. Neronian gambols ii. Horror Plays of the Exclusion Crisis 6. Seneca Censored i. The Long Eighteenth Century ii. A Backdrop to Schlegel iii. Colossal, Misshapen Marionettes 7. Signalling Through the Flames i. Shelley's Cenci ii. Artaud's Cenci 8. Seneca in '68 i. Deeper into Language ii. The Fetters of the Eyes Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsa welcome addition to the growing body of work on the reception of Senecan tragedy and the plays' performance history ... Slaney provides an excellent history of the reception of Senecan drama since the early modern period. She is particularly sensitive to how complex this history is, especially during periods when Seneca was officially out of favour. * Christopher Star, Classical Journal Online * a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the reception of Senecan tragedy and the plays' performance history ... Slaney provides an excellent history of the reception of Senecan drama since the early modern period. She is particularly sensitive to how complex this history is, especially during periods when Seneca was officially out of favour. * Christopher Star, Classical Journal Online * Remarkable and very appreciable ... is the effort to renew the study of the senequista theater and its successors and force the reader to value otherwise certain phenomena already well known as rhetoric pathetic, the metatheality and also the dynamic structure that drives to the Senecan characters of the furor al scelus nefas (the monstrous crime). ... Undoubtedly, his greatest achievement consists in proposing, from Seneca, a diachronic reflection on the essence of the theater that goes beyond the aesthetic framework to interrogate also their anthropological foundations. * Florence d'Artois, Bulletin of the Comediantes * a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the reception of Senecan tragedy and the plays' performance history ... Slaney provides an excellent history of the reception of Senecan drama since the early modern period. She is particularly sensitive to how complex this history is, especially during periods when Seneca was officially out of favour. Christopher Star, Classical Journal Online In addition to offering 'traditional' classicists - that is to say, for the most part, readers of Seneca - a new interpretative approach to the tragedies, this volume should also constitute a signifcant contribution to classical performance reception studies. * Emma Buckley, Language and Literature * Remarkable and very appreciable ... is the effort to renew the study of the senequista theater and its successors and force the reader to value otherwise certain phenomena already well known as rhetoric pathetic, the metatheality and also the dynamic structure that drives to the Senecan characters of the furor al scelus nefas (the monstrous crime). ... Undoubtedly, his greatest achievement consists in proposing, from Seneca, a diachronic reflection on the essence of the theater that goes beyond the aesthetic framework to interrogate also their anthropological foundations. * Florence d'Artois, Bulletin of the Comediantes * a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the reception of Senecan tragedy and the plays' performance history ... Slaney provides an excellent history of the reception of Senecan drama since the early modern period. She is particularly sensitive to how complex this history is, especially during periods when Seneca was officially out of favour. * Christopher Star, Classical Journal Online * Author InformationHelen Slaney is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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