SENECA: PHAEDRA; Translated and with an Introduction.
Seneca; Frederick Ahl (Trans. )
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, 1986
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Underlining and notes in ink.; Masters of Latin Literature; 128 pages; Seneca's Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the play's dramatic qualities, examining its Greek and Roman background. The introduction presents discussion of dramaturgy and rhetoric as well as style and textual transmission. An unusual feature is the tracing of the influence of Phaedra's story on later European literature and music. The commentary has extensive notes not only on Seneca's language, but also on plot, characterization, and the use of myth.
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- Title
- SENECA: PHAEDRA; Translated and with an Introduction.
- Author
- Seneca; Frederick Ahl (Trans. )
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801494338
- ISBN 13
- 9780801494338
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- Latin Literature
Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies.
Here is a moving and accomplished translation of this complex play dealing the the violent passions stirred by innocence and beauty and the terrible power of ideology, hatred, and misunderstanding.
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