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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy
Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy
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Shakespeare's tragic characters have been seen as forerunners of modern personhood, but Curtis Perry argues that they are also connected to the tradition of Senecan tragedy, which allows us to recover a crucial political dimension. Shakespeare saw Seneca as a representative voice from post-republican Rome, exploring questions of identity in relation to failures of republican community. This study has important implications for our understanding of character, community, and alterity in early modern drama.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 306 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Shakespeare's tragic characters have often been seen as forerunners of modern personhood, with it being assumed that his freedom from the restrictions of classical form allowed him to create such lifelike figures. However, Curtis Perry 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. By re-establishing Shakespearean tragedy in this way, as both backward-looking and forward-looking, it becomes possible to recover a crucial political dimension.
Shakespeare viewed Seneca as a representative voice from post-republican Rome, and in plays such as Coriolanus and Othello, he used Senecan modes of characterization to explore questions of identity in relation to failures of republican community. This study has significant implications for our understanding of character, community, and alterity in early modern drama.
In conclusion, Shakespeare's tragic characters have played a significant role in shaping our understanding of modern personhood, and by re-establishing their connection to the tradition of Senecan tragedy, we can recover a crucial political dimension that has been overlooked in previous interpretations. This study has important implications for our understanding of character, community, and alterity in early modern drama.
Weight: 462g
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108791618
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