Seneca's "Hercules furens"
Seneca's

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780801418761

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John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including the Paris manuscript T.

Seneca: Hercules Furens
Seneca: Hercules Furens

Author: Neil Bernstein

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-02-09

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1474254934

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Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary adaptations in film, TV, and comics. Aimed at undergraduates and non-specialists, this companion introduces the play's action, historical context and literary tradition, critical reception, adaptation, and performance tradition.

Six Tragedies
Six Tragedies

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010-01-14

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0192807064

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This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.

The Passions in Play
The Passions in Play

Author: Alessandro Schiesaro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-25

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1139440217

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This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.

Seneca: Hercules Furens
Seneca: Hercules Furens

Author: Neil Bernstein

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1350080810

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Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary adaptations in film, TV, and comics. Aimed at undergraduates and non-specialists, this companion introduces the play's action, historical context and literary tradition, critical reception, adaptation, and performance tradition.