Seneca - Oedipus (2011, Hardcover) by book MOBI, DJV
9780199547715 English, Latin 0199547718 Seneca'sOedipusis a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental, intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular; its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, and the nature of tragic theatre. The impact of Seneca'sOedipuson the European dramatic tradition has been immense. This is the first full-scale critical edition with commentary to appear in English. It aims to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate it firmly in its historical and theatrical context and, since it is especially attentive to the play's reception, in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. The verse translation is designed for both performance and serious study., Senecaÿs Oedipus is the only ancient Roman play to survive on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular. Its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, the nature of tragic theatre. Its impact on the European dramatic tradition has been immense. Dramatists such as Mussato, Anguillara, Kyd, Hughes, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, Chapman, Corneille, Tesauro, Racine, Dryden and Lee, and Voltaire parade its influence. In modern times the play has attained most prominence through its adaptation by Ted Hughes for the 1968 National Theatre production in London, directed by peter Brook-which was followed three years later by the version of the Belgian dramatist and film-maker, Hugo Claus (1971). But the influence of the Senecan play may be found throughout the twentieth century, not only in drama but in song opera, prose fiction psychoanalytic theory, and film. This is the first full-scale critical edition of Senecaÿs Oedipus with commentary to appear in English. It offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English verse translation designed for both performance and serious study, and a detailed commentary on the play which is exegetic, analytic, and interpretative. The aim throughout has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. Book jacket., Seneca�s Oedipus is the only ancient Roman play to survive on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular. Its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, the nature of tragic theatre. Its impact on the European dramatic tradition has been immense. Dramatists such as Mussato, Anguillara, Kyd, Hughes, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, Chapman, Corneille, Tesauro, Racine, Dryden and Lee, and Voltaire parade its influence. In modern times the play has attained most prominence through its adaptation by Ted Hughes for the 1968 National Theatre production in London, directed by peter Brook-which was followed three years later by the version of the Belgian dramatist and film-maker, Hugo Claus (1971). But the influence of the Senecan play may be found throughout the twentieth century, not only in drama but in song opera, prose fiction psychoanalytic theory, and film. This is the first full-scale critical edition of Seneca�s Oedipus with commentary to appear in English. It offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English verse translation designed for both performance and serious study, and a detailed commentary on the play which is exegetic, analytic, and interpretative. The aim throughout has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. Book jacket.
9780199547715 English, Latin 0199547718 Seneca'sOedipusis a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental, intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular; its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, and the nature of tragic theatre. The impact of Seneca'sOedipuson the European dramatic tradition has been immense. This is the first full-scale critical edition with commentary to appear in English. It aims to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate it firmly in its historical and theatrical context and, since it is especially attentive to the play's reception, in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. The verse translation is designed for both performance and serious study., Senecaÿs Oedipus is the only ancient Roman play to survive on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular. Its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, the nature of tragic theatre. Its impact on the European dramatic tradition has been immense. Dramatists such as Mussato, Anguillara, Kyd, Hughes, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, Chapman, Corneille, Tesauro, Racine, Dryden and Lee, and Voltaire parade its influence. In modern times the play has attained most prominence through its adaptation by Ted Hughes for the 1968 National Theatre production in London, directed by peter Brook-which was followed three years later by the version of the Belgian dramatist and film-maker, Hugo Claus (1971). But the influence of the Senecan play may be found throughout the twentieth century, not only in drama but in song opera, prose fiction psychoanalytic theory, and film. This is the first full-scale critical edition of Senecaÿs Oedipus with commentary to appear in English. It offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English verse translation designed for both performance and serious study, and a detailed commentary on the play which is exegetic, analytic, and interpretative. The aim throughout has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. Book jacket., Seneca�s Oedipus is the only ancient Roman play to survive on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular. Its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, the nature of tragic theatre. Its impact on the European dramatic tradition has been immense. Dramatists such as Mussato, Anguillara, Kyd, Hughes, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, Chapman, Corneille, Tesauro, Racine, Dryden and Lee, and Voltaire parade its influence. In modern times the play has attained most prominence through its adaptation by Ted Hughes for the 1968 National Theatre production in London, directed by peter Brook-which was followed three years later by the version of the Belgian dramatist and film-maker, Hugo Claus (1971). But the influence of the Senecan play may be found throughout the twentieth century, not only in drama but in song opera, prose fiction psychoanalytic theory, and film. This is the first full-scale critical edition of Seneca�s Oedipus with commentary to appear in English. It offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English verse translation designed for both performance and serious study, and a detailed commentary on the play which is exegetic, analytic, and interpretative. The aim throughout has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. Book jacket.