Seneca and Celestina

Klappentext This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina. Zusammenfassung This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina (1499)! which enjoyed enormous popularity in sixteenth-century Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Towards a Senecan tradition; 2. Senecan commentary as a frame of reference; 3. The 'antiguo autor' as a reader of Seneca; 4. Fernando de Rojas continues the story: the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea; 5. Res et verba in Seneca, Petrarch and Rojas; 6. Readers ask for more: the Tragicomedia del Calisto y Melibea; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Senecan 'sententiae'; General index.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Fothergill-Payne, Fothergill-Payne Louise
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521121187
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12118-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics