Seneca in Performance

ISBN-13: 9781914535345 / Angielski

Dr George W. M. Harrison (Carleton Unive

Opis

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated - and performed. Here, in a collection of papers from an international cast, scholars explore both established questions, such as the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.