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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Seneca on the Ancient Stage 1. Playing Seneca? -
John G. Fitch 2. Production of Seneca's Trojan Women, Ancient and Modern -
Elaine Fantham 3. Location! Location! Location! Choral Absence and Theatrical Space in the Troades -
C.W. Marshall 4. Nothing Within Which Passeth Show: Character and Color in Senecan Tragedy -
Brian S. Hook Contemporary Roman Social Influences on Seneca 5. A New Look at Seneca's Phaedra -
Hanna M. Roisman 6. The Spectacle of Death in Seneca's Troades -
Jo-Ann Shelton 7. Grotesque Vision: Seneca's Tragedies and Neronian Art -
Eric R. Varner 8. Semper Ego Auditor Tantum?: Performance and Physical Setting of Seneca's Plays -
George W.M. Harrison Modern Translation and Staging 9. Seneca and Chaucer: Translating Both Poetry and Sense -
Frederick Ahl 10. Seneca's Trojan Women: Identity and Survival in the Aftermath of War -
Gyllian Raby 11. Putting Andromacha on Stage: A Performer's Perspective -
Katharina Volk 12. Going for Baroque: Seneca and the English -
Sander M. Goldberg Bibliography Index
