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The influence of Seneca on Elizabethan tragedy, an essay

The influence of Seneca on Elizabethan tragedy, an essay

William Cunliffe, John

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Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 9353801613
ISBN13: 9789353801618
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The fiercest passions on the Elizabethan stage did not arise in isolation. They travelled from Rome to London, reshaped by poets, players, and an audience hungry for spectacle. Blood, rhetoric, and borrowed thunder. In this literary criticism essay, John William Cunliffe traces the Seneca influence on drama with clarity and bite, showing how Roman tragedy influence helped form the tone, structure, and moral temperature of English Renaissance theatre. Part classical reception study and part academic literary analysis, this concise work follows the line from Senecan tragedy scholarship to the distinctive force of Elizabethan revenge tragedy. Cunliffe attends to what mattered in Elizabethan England theatre: the architecture of revenge plots, the allure of stoic philosophy, the theatrical uses of ghostly prologues and sententious speech, and the tension between public justice and private rage. The result is a sharply argued piece of literature research reference that speaks to readers of Shakespeare tragedy criticism as well as anyone curious about how classical models were absorbed, resisted, and transformed. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Ideal for a university literature course, for independent study, or for classic-literature shelves, it offers a focused, historically grounded lens on why Seneca mattered, and why his shadow still falls across the English stage.

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