Phaedra - Couverture souple

Seneca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801494338 ISBN 13 : 9780801494338

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies.

Here is a moving and accomplished translation of this complex play dealing the the violent passions stirred by innocence and beauty and the terrible power of ideology, hatred, and misunderstanding.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Seneca's Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play, particularly Seneca's use of Euripides and Ovid, and its philosophical elements grounded in Seneca's Stoicism. The introduction also discusses dramatic and rhetorical presentation, aspects of style including imagery and the transmission of the text. An unusual feature is the treatment of the influence of the Phaedra story in later European literature and music. The commentary examines Seneca's language in detail and looks at his use of earlier poetic models (Virgil and Ovid) as well as plot, characterisation and his use of myth. Although principally for students of Latin literature, this new edition will also be of interest to historians of drama and comparative literature.

Biographie 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: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801494338
• ISBN 13: 9780801494338
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible