Four Tragedies And Octavia

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141916338
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Tragedies and Octavia written by Seneca and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the atrocities of the emperor.

Author : Lucio Anneo Seneca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four tragedies and Octavia written by Lucio Anneo Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Tragedies and Octavia written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sénèque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Tragedies and Octavia written by Sénèque and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140441743
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Tragedies and Octavia written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1966-10-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman's impact on the development of the tragedy.

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thyestes written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192807064
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141970944
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phaedra and Other Plays written by Seneca and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.

Author : John Drakakis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000915581
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy written by John Drakakis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history. Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin. This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.

Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035058
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Seneca written by Shadi Bartsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.