Seneca: Thyestes

Informationen zum Autor P.J. Davis is Associate Professor and Head of Classics in the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. He has published on a variety of Latin authors! including Calpurnius Siculus! Horace! Ovid! Seneca! Statius and Virgil! and is the author of Shifting Song: the Chorus in Seneca's Tragedies (1993). Klappentext Written in Nero's Rome in about AD62! "Thyestes" is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies. Peter Davies explores the key aspects of the play including the circumstances of its composition! its performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists. Explores key aspects of this influential classical tragedy: the circumstances of its composition, performance history, impact on subsequent dramatists, like Shakespeare and Jonson. Zusammenfassung Written in Nero's Rome in about AD62, "Thyestes" is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies. Peter Davies explores the key aspects of the play including the circumstances of its composition, its performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. Contexts2. Performance History 3. Themes and Issues 4. Reception Notes Guide to Further Reading Bibliography Chronology Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements
1. Contexts
2. Performance History
3. Themes and Issues
4. Reception
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Chronology
Index

Product details

• Authors: P J Davis, P. J. Davis, P.J. Davis
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780715632222
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3222-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Companions to Greek and Roman; Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy; Companions to Greek and Roman; Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latein, Altgriechisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker