Seneca - The Tragedies

"The language in these translations (is) as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled."--Eleanor Wilner. "Slavitt's translation is...lively and sometimes witty."--'TimesLiterary Supplement.' "A good, sensational Senecan read."--'Queen's Quarterly' The volume includes 'Trojan Women', 'Thyestes', 'Phaedra', 'Medea', and 'Agamemnon', plus a preface.

About the author

David R. Slavitt is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist. He is author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation.

Summary

The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.

Product details

• Authors: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Assisted by: Palmer Bovie (Editor), David Slavitt (Translation), David R Slavitt (Translation), David R. Slavitt (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.1992
• EAN: 9780801843099
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4309-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Complete Roman Drama in Translation; Complete Roman Drama in Translation; Seneca (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Plays, playscripts, drama