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Six tragedies : Seneca / with an introduction and notes by Emily Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarly editions online.
- Oxford scholarly editions online
- Standardized Title:
- Plays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D--Translations into English.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * ThyestesSeneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out. Seneca forces us to think about the difference betweencompromise and hypocrisy, about what happ
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text and Translation; Select Bibliography; Chronology; Mythological Family Trees; PHAEDRA; OEDIPUS; MEDEA; TROJAN WOMEN; HERCULES FURENS; THYESTES; Explanatory Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612501951
- 9780191827891
- 0191827894
- 9781282501959
- 128250195X
- 9780191539725
- 0191539724
- OCLC:
- 550669733
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