Seneca's Drama

Author: Norman T. Pratt
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0807815551

Seneca's Drama

With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. Get Seneca's Drama literature books for free.
These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society.
Seneca's drama shows the nature of this society and uses freely the declamatory rhetorical techniques familiar to any well-educated Roman. But the most important element, Pratt argues, is Neo-Stoicism, including technical aspects of this philosophy that previously have escaped notice. With these ingredients Seneca transformed the themes and characters inherited from Greek drama, casting them in a form that so radically departs from the earlier drama that Seneca's plays require a different Check Seneca's Drama our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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