| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-268) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Poetry, passions and knowledge; CHAPTER 2 Staging Thyestes; CHAPTER 3 A craftier Tereus; CHAPTER 4 Atreus rex; CHAPTER 5 Fata se vertunt retro; CHAPTER 6 The poetics of passions; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of passages cited; General index. |
| Summary |
This book subjects the most accomplished of Seneca's tragedies to a sustained critical analysis and argues for its central importance in post-Classical aesthetics. It also discusses several other of his plays, thereby offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the main themes and stylistic features of his tragedies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Thyestes.
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Thyestes, King of Olympia and Mycenae (Mythological character) -- In literature.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. |
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Thyestes, King of Olympia and Mycenae (Mythological character) |
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Thyestes (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus) |
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Tragedy.
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Tragedy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schiesaro, Alessandro. Passions in play. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 052181801X (DLC) 2004299824 (OCoLC)52058071 |
| ISBN |
0511061250 (electronic book) |
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9780511061257 (electronic book) |
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0511069715 |
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9780511069710 |
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9780521818018 (paperback) |
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052181801X (paperback) |
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9780511482373 (ebook) |
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051148237X (ebook) |
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1280434473 |
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9781280434471 |
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