Seneca Hercules A. J. Boyle

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198856946
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198856948
• Author(s): A. J. Boyle

Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value. Written probably at the intersection of the principates of Claudius and Nero, it addresses central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. Among its concerns are violence and madness; imperatives of family and self; Rome, identity and place; the nature of virtue; the longing for immortality; the theatre of rage; and the empire of death. The play is dramatically innovative, spectacular, and arresting: from its fiery, monumental god-prologue (the only one in Senecan tragedy), through meditative soliloquies, impassioned speeches, trenchant dialogue, a failed wooing scene with an impressive after-life in Tudor drama, a stunning entrance for Hercules and his captured hellhound, Theseus’ ecphrastic narrative of the hero’s infernal ‘labour’, to a familicidal madness scene and an emotionally turbulent, non-violent finale, in which the instinct for self-punitive suicide is thwarted by the claims of kinship and the acceptance of intolerable suffering. The whole is bound together by some of Seneca’s most affective choral lyrics, as intellectually engaging as they are emotionally potent.

Table contents:

Introduction
I:Seneca and Rome
II:Roman Theatre
III:The Declamatory Style
IV:Seneca’s Theatre of Violence
V:Seneca and Suicide
VI:The Myth before Seneca
VII:The Play
VIII:Reception of Seneca’s Hercules
IX:Metre
X:The Translation
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
Selective Critical Apparatus
Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text
COMMENTARY
Select Bibliography
Indexes
I:Latin Words
II:Passages from Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus
III:General Index

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