Seneca - The Tragedies

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions--if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world--the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents and translators: Octavia! Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus! Stephen Sandy * Oedipus! Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women! David Slavitt * Hercules Furens! Dana Gioia.

Product details

• Authors: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca Slavitt
• Assisted by: David R. Slavitt (Editor), David R. Slavitt (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1995
• EAN: 9780801849329
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4932-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Seneca (Hardcover); Seneca (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Antike, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism