Seneca: Phaedra - Couverture souple

Mayer, Roland

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0715631659 ISBN 13 : 9780715631652

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 2002

Synopsis

Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. It was the first ancient drama to be performed in the Renaissance, marking an epoch in European theatre. The myth, as reworked by Seneca on the basis of dramas by Euripides, was endowed with fresh power, and his characterisation of Phaedra, especially in her frank avowal of love to her stepson, Hippolytus, fired the imagination of later tragic poets, especially Racine. Roland Mayer introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and he sets out some of the main lines of contemporary interpretation and performance practice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roland Mayer is Professor of Classics in the University of London. He has written widely on a number of Roman authors and issues, and in 1990 with Michael Coffey published an edition with commentary of Seneca's Phaedra (Cambridge University Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0715631659
• ISBN 13: 9780715631652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 142
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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