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Seneca: Medea - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Seneca: Medea - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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The myth of the sorceress Medea, who, abandoned by her Argonaut
husband Jason, killed their children in revenge, has exerted a
continuous impact on European writers and artists from classical
Greece to the present day. The ancient Romans were especially drawn
to the myth, but Seneca's tragedy is the only dramatic treatment to
have survived from imperial Rome intact. It is intellectually and
poetically one of the richest of Seneca's plays and theatrically
one of his most innovative, spectacular and self-reflective. Its
themes include the problematics of power and civilization, the
dynamics of 'self' and 'other', the psychology of action, the
determinism of history, the tragic theatre itself. The play's deep
influence on the European dramatic, operatic and artistic tradition
(and beyond) is only now being fully appreciated. Poets,
dramatists, librettists, composers, choreographers, painters,
film-makers - including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Webster, Corneille,
Noverre, Cherubini, Mayr, Grillparzer, Turner, Anouilh, Jeffers,
Pasolini, Muller, Ripstein, Reimann - exhibit its formal and
thematic force. This full-scale critical edition of Seneca's Medea
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.
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