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The tragedies of Seneca, translated into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index

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The tragedies of Seneca

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translated into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index

While the Greek tragedies were expansive and periodic, Senecan tragedies are more succinct and balanced. In Senecan tragedy, characters do not undergo much change, there is little or no catharsis in the end, and violence is acted out on stage instead of being recalled by characters to the audience. Often, Seneca's plays contain pronounced elements of the macabre, grotesque, and even the supernatural. Not only have these plays withstood the test of time, but they essentially fueled the growth of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in England many centuries after their creation. Seneca's work exerted significant influence on writers like Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare, to name a few

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