商品簡介
While Roman statesman, philosopher and writer Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s (c.4 BC-65 AD) tragedies influenced the Roman populace beyond his commanded suicide, ultimately they were eclipsed by the exigencies of time. The discovery of nine plays attributed to him during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries kicked off a renaissance of the genre and was seminal to the creation of humanism. In this volume Dodson-Robinson presents interdisciplinary reevaluations of Senecan receptions and briefly discusses why the tragedies and their receptions remain vital to broad audiences today. Criticized for the level of violence in his works while he was alive, Seneca provided something for everyone--cannibalism, gore, incest, ghosts, passion, revenge, suicide, and last, but not least, virtue. One contributor to the volume cites today as a unique moment in modern Senecan studies for exploring violence in Seneca’s works, by providing a current context of cultural and media environment saturated with recent Senecan dramatic productions that are more violent and graphic than their source texts. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Eric Dodson-Robinson, Ph.D. (2009), University of Illinois, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His publications explore violence and agency, especially in Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy. Contributors are: Florence de Caigny, Francesco Citti, Peter J. Davis, Eric Dodson-Robinson, Patrick Gray, Joachim Harst, Siobhan McElduff, Tomas Martinez Romero, Ralf Remshardt, Helen Slaney, Christopher Star, Christopher Trinacty, and Jessica Winston.