Schiesaro, Alessandro
The Passions in Play

Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama.

Schiesaro analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy. XII,284 Seiten, broschiert (Cambridge University Press 2007) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben, Fußschnitt leicht angeschmutzt/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed, bottom edge slightly soiled