TY - BOOK ID - 25508048 TI - The Senecan aesthetic : a performance history PY - 2016 SN - 9780198736769 0198736762 9780191800412 0191800414 PB - Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Seneca [Younger] KW - Latin drama (Tragedy) KW - Latin drama (Tragedy). KW - Theater KW - History and criticism. KW - Aesthetics. KW - Seneca, L. Annaeus KW - Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus). KW - Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus) KW - History and criticism KW - Aesthetics KW - Tragedies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25508048 AB - "Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the dramaturgical development of European theatre. 'The Senecan Aesthetic' surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan tragedy has been staged, from the Renaissance up to the present day: plundered for neo-Latin declamation and seeping into the blood-soaked revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's contemporaries, seasoned with French neoclassical rigour, and inflated by Restoration flamboyance. In the mid-18th century, the pincer movement of naturalism and philhellenism began to squeeze Seneca off the stage until August Wilhelm Schlegel's shrill denunciation silenced what he called its 'frigid bombast'. The Senecan aesthetic, repressed but still present, staged its return in the twentieth century in the work of Antonin Artaud, who regarded Seneca as "the greatest tragedian of history." This volume restores Seneca to a canonical position among the playwrights of antiquity, recognizing him as one of the most important, most revered, and most reviled, and in doing so reveals how theory, practice, and scholarship have always been interdependent and inseparable." ER -