The life of me upon my death among us : Seneca's repetitive suicides, his continuous dictation and the scribes who based the genre of historiography on his death
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Seneca's tragic works are performative texts that bring to attention particular periods in theatre history that relied heavily on Seneca's writing. Works of Elizabethan writers, or plays from the early French baroque incorporated Seneca through translation, copying and emulation. This practice relates Seneca's own use of the ancient Greek and Roman texts as a pastiche method of composing his own tragedies. The historiography written around Seneca's death moment performs what Seneca's own letters and essays prescribe, in that writing the self, the passions and pleasures of acting on behalf of the self and the prolonged but determined path to death, all contribute to creating the Senecan self, on its daily quest to contain experience and past time within a complete daily composition. Seneca's relationship to space -- that of his private home dedicated to creation, that of the Domus Aurea dedicated to politics, and that internal mind space -- is at the center of the relationship between his tragedies and the geopolitics of the Roman Empire in the Silver Age. Written for the stage while mimicking the stage of politics, the tragedies are innovative compositions in replicating and improving their Greek ideal predecessors.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Drinovan, Ileana |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Drama |
| Primary advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Rayner, Alice |
| Thesis advisor | Weber, Carl, 1925-2016 |
| Advisor | Rayner, Alice |
| Advisor | Weber, Carl, 1925-2016 |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ileana Drinovan. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Drama. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Ileana Drinovan
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