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Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ten ancient Roman tragedies, eight of which were probably written by the Stoic philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

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Senecan tragedy

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Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ten ancient Roman tragedies, eight of which were probably written by the Stoic philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus...

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Shakespearean tragedy

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of Egregious Popish Impostures. Tragedies from these eras traced their philosophical essence back to the Senecan tragedy, grounded in nobles who have a...

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The Spanish Tragedy

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influenced The Spanish Tragedy, notably Seneca and those from the Medieval tradition. The play is ostensibly Senecan with its bloody tragedy, rhetoric of the...

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Revenge tragedy

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representation of Senecan revenge drama in all aspects. Thomas Kyd provided a refined form of Senecan tragedy through his play The Spanish Tragedy (1592). William...

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Tragedy

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the gods rarely appear in these plays, ghosts and witches abound. Senecan tragedies explore ideas of revenge, the occult, the supernatural, suicide, blood...

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Theatre of ancient Rome

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works, the true author remains unknown. Senecan tragedy put forth a declamatory style, or a style of tragedy that emphasized rhetoric structures. It was...

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The Duchess of Malfi

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makes use of various theatrical devices, some of them derived from Senecan Tragedy which includes violence and bloodshed on the stage. Act III, Scene...

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Albertino Mussato

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significant for its historical information, but is modeled after the Senecan tragedy and is an indication of the early revival of classical works and their...

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Henriad

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play King John (c. 1538). Gorboduc (1561) is considered the first Senecan tragedy in the English language, though it is a chronicle play written in blank...

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Martin Delrio

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an edition of Claudian. He was particularly proud of the edition of Senecan tragedy, published in 1576 but which he (falsely) claimed to have completed...

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List of eponymous adjectives in English

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Seleucid Empire) Semitic – Shem (as in Semitic languages) Senecan – Seneca (as in Senecan Tragedy) Servian – Servius Tullius (as in Servian Wall) Severan...

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Heracles

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Tragedy. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780521851268. Littlewood, Cedric (2004). Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan...

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De casibus virorum illustrium

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monastic chronicle tradition combines with the classical ideas of Senecan tragedy. De casibus stems from the tradition of exemplary literature works...

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Muretus

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(1789) and by C. H. Frotscher (1834-1841). Julius Caesar Muretus' Senecan tragedy, printed in 1591 (Latin text) Chisholm 1911. He published a commentary...

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Trevanian

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Dialog 5, Summer 1966, pp. 226–7 (1966). "Conversation: On translating Senecan tragedy into film", James Hynd (an interview with Rod Whitaker). Arion (Boston)...

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English literature

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morality plays and Senecan tragedy, in the direction which would be followed by later playwrights. The Spanish Tragedy is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas...

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George of Austria

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of France. J. A. Parente (1981). "Counter-Reformation Polemic and Senecan Tragedy". Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies. 30: 161–165...

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Elaine Fantham

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Netherlands, Norway, Argentina, and Australia. Her commentaries on Senecan tragedy, Lucan, and Ovid's Fasti in particular led to renewed interest in these...

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Daniel Casper von Lohenstein

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contrast to the "better" reality, and they thus stand in the tradition of Senecan tragedy. Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein in many of his writings showed his views...

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Pietro Metastasio

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translated the Iliad into octave stanzas; and two years later he composed a Senecan tragedy on a subject from Gian Giorgio Trissino's Italia liberata – Gravina's...

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Horace

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literature, could still take inspiration from Horace, sometimes mediated by Senecan tragedy. It can be argued that Horace's influence extended beyond poetry to...

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Samuel Daniel

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published in Delia and Rosamond Augmented. Cleopatra (1594). The Tragedy of Cleopatra – Senecan, closet drama about Cleopatra's suicide following the death...

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