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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's tragic characters have often been seen as forerunners
of modern personhood. It has been assumed that Shakespeare was able
to invent such lifelike figures in part because of his freedom from
the restrictions of classical form. Curtis Perry instead argues
that characters such as Hamlet and King Lear have seemed modern to
us in part because they are so robustly connected to the tradition
of Senecan tragedy. Resituating Shakespearean tragedy in this way -
as backward looking as well as forward looking - makes it possible
to recover a crucial political dimension. Shakespeare saw Seneca as
a representative voice from post-republican Rome: in plays such as
Coriolanus and Othello he uses Senecan modes of characterization to
explore questions of identity in relation to failures of republican
community. This study has important implications for the way we
understand character, community, and alterity in early modern
drama.
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