The Senecan Aesthetic

A Performance History

By:

Helen Slaney

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Classical Presences

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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-eighteenth 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'. The Senecan aesthetic, repressed but still present, staged its return in the twentieth century in the work of Antonin Artaud, who regarded Seneca as 'the greatest tragedian of history'. This volume restores Seneca to a canonical position among the playwrights of antiquity, recognizing him as one of the most important, most revered, and most reviled, and in doing so reveals how theory, practice, and scholarship have always been interdependent and inseparable.

Author Biography:

Helen Slaney is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Release date Australia

December 10th, 2015

Author

Helen Slaney

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

six black and white illustrations

Pages

336

Series

Classical Presences

Dimensions

142x223x23

ISBN-13

9780198736769

Product ID

24089719

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