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Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ten
ancient Roman tragedies,
eight of
which were
probably written by the
Stoic philosopher and
politician Lucius Annaeus...
- "Pseudo-Seneca". At
least some of
these seem to
preserve and
adapt genuine Senecan content, for example,
Saint Martin of Braga's (d. c. 580)
Formula vitae...
- "Reception of
Senecan Tragedy".
Archive of
Performances of Gr**** and
Roman Drama.
Retrieved November 9, 2013. Rosenmeyer,
Thomas G. (1989).
Senecan Drama and...
- ISBN 9780521851268. Littlewood,
Cedric (2004). Self-representation and
Illusion in
Senecan Tragedy. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0199267613. Pseudo-Apollodorus...
- unclear; for its manner,
progressing from the
models of the
morality play and
Senecan tragedy in the
direction which would be
followed by
later playwrights....
- a
holdover from
Senecan or
medieval tradition. Shakespeare's audience, in this view,
expected villains to be
wholly bad, and
Senecan style, far from prohibiting...
- the gods
rarely appear in
these plays,
ghosts and
witches are abound.
Senecan tragedies explore ideas of revenge, the occult, the supernatural, suicide...
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Malta (c. 1589)
contains a
prologue by a
character called Machiavel, a
Senecan ghost based on Machiavelli.
Machiavel expresses the
cynical view that power...
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final soliloquy and
earlier visions of her son in the heavens. In the
Senecan model of revenge,
those who s****
revenge are
subordinated within the corrupt...
- to be an
exact representation of
Senecan revenge drama in all aspects.
Thomas Kyd
provided a
refined form of
Senecan tragedy through his play The Spanish...
