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This work undertakes a re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their
relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role
in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an
introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides
dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus,
analyzing the declamatory form of the plays, their rhetoric,
interiority, stagecraft and spectacle, dramatic, ideological and
moral structure and their overt theatricality. Each of Seneca's
plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama
not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their
representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the
self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture.
The later chapters focus on Seneca's influence on Italian, English
and French drama of the Renaissance. A.J. Boyle argues that
tragedians such as Cinthio, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster,
Corneille, and Racine owe a debt to Seneca that goes beyond
allusion, dramatic form and the treatment of tyranny and revenge to
the development of the tragic sensibility and the metatheatrical
mind.
Octavia is a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest.
It is the only surviving complete example of the Roman historical
drama known as the fabula praetexta. Written shortly after Nero's
death by an unknown author, the play deals with events at the court
of Nero in the decisive year 62 CE, for which it is the earliest
extant (almost contemporary) literary source; its main themes are
sex, murder, politics, power and the perceptions and constructions
of history. It is a powerful, lyrical and spectacular play. This is
the first critical edition of Octavia, with verse translation and
commentary, which aims to elucidate the text dramatically as well
as philologically, and to locate it firmly in its historical and
theatrical context. The verse translation is designed for both
performance and serious study.
"Tragic Seneca" undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's
plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their
instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical
tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman
theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the
whole of Seneca's corpus. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in
detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral
complexity of the texts and their representations of power,
violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic
interplay of text, tradition and culture. The later chapters focus
on Seneca's influence on Italian, English and French drama of the
Renaissance. A.J. Boyle argues that tragedians such as Cinthio,
Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Corneille, and Racine owe a
debt to Seneca that goes beyond allusion, dramatic form and the
treatment of tyranny and revenge to the development of the tragic
sensibility and the metatheatrical mind.
The current state of English company law on minority shareholders' remedies is analyzed in the light of the UK Law Commission, further appraised and amplified by the Company Law Review Steering Group. The book covers the common law actions by exception to the Rule in Foss v Harbottle, and the statutory remedies by way of petition for unfair prejudice and/or just and equitable winding up. As well as considering the complexities of derivative actions and statutory minority remedies, Boyle discusses future directions for minority shareholders' remedies.
A. J. Boyle assesses the state of English company law on minority
shareholders' remedies from historical, theoretical and comparative
perspectives in this important addition to Cambridge Studies in
Corporate Law. He analyses the reforms of the UK Law Commission,
which have been further appraised and amplified by the work in
progress of the Company Law Review Steering Group. The book covers
the common law actions by exception to the Rule in Foss v.
Harbottle, and the statutory remedies by way of petition for unfair
prejudice and/or just and equitable winding up. As well as
considering the complexities of derivative actions and statutory
minority remedies, Boyle discusses directions for minority
shareholders' remedies. This book will be of interest to academics
and practitioners in company and corporate law, particularly in the
UK, US, France and Germany, as well as throughout the Commonwealth.
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