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Seneca by Candlelight and Other Stories of Renaissance Drama

Seneca by Candlelight and Other Stories of Renaissance Drama

Helms, Lorraine

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0812234138
ISBN13: 9780812234138
Publisher: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
Published: Sep 29 1997
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.84
Language: English

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

English Seneca read by candlelight, wrote the Elizabethan author Thomas Nashe, will afford you whole Hamlets. In the early decades of the twentieth century, literary and theater historians took Nashe at his word,
finding Senecan tragedy at the source of Renaissance drama. More recently, critics have been inclined to dismiss traces of classical antiquity as a superficial veneer on a drama derived from medieval traditions. Lorraine Helms revisits this terrain to explore the rich and various ways in which classical learning shaped the theatrical culture of the Renaissance. She uncovers the practical advice on acting and stagecraft to be found in the writings of ancient rhetoricians; reconstructs the extraordinary circumstances under which an English woman first rendered Euripides into her native language; and ponders the precedents in antiquity for Elizabethan portrayals of prostitution and female martyrdom.

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