Seneca in English (Penguin Classics: Poets in Translation S.) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0140446672 ISBN 13: 9780140446678

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

Envied by Caligula, exiled by Claudius, and finally executed by his pupil Nero, Seneca the Younger wrote in a violent, epigrammatic and extreme style which has often seemed excessive to those living in calmer times. Yet Seneca was the most influential Classical dramatist upon the English Renaissance, inspiring Shakespeare, Chapman and Marlowe, to name but a few. This volume draws on the most significant translations dating from the Renaissance to the present day, and Ted Hughes' Oedipus.

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Synopsis:

Envied by Caligula, exiled by Claudius and finally executed by his pupil Nero, the playwright and philosopher Seneca the Younger (c. 4BC-65BC) wrote in a violent, epigrammatic and extreme style which has often seemed excessive to those living in calmer times. Yet he was extremely influential upon writers and poets ranging from Shakespeare and Marvell to T.S. Eliot and Ted Hughes. This is an anthology of verse versions of Seneca from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, with a special concentration upon Elizabethan verse drama.

About the Author:

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born in Spain around 4 B.C. In A.D. 65, following the discovery of a plot against the emperor Nero, he and many others were compelled by Nero to commit suicide.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140446672
• ISBN 13: 9780140446678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288