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Senecan tragedy

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The plays of Seneca exercised great influence on medieval playwrights, who used them as models for literary imitation. They were edited by Nicholas Trivet, and in the 15th and 16th cents ...

Senecan tragedy

Senecan tragedy   Quick reference

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)

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2015
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Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
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156 words

...and horrible crimes, appealed to the popular English dramatists of the late 16th century, who presented such horrors on stage in their revenge tragedies . These were preceded by a purer form of English Senecan tragedy, notably in Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville ’s Gorboduc ( 1561 ), the first English tragedy. The conventional five-act structure of Renaissance drama owes its origin to the influence of...

Senecan tragedy

Senecan tragedy  

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Literature
The plays of Seneca exercised great influence on medieval playwrights, who used them as models for literary imitation. They were edited by Nicholas Trivet, and in the 15th and 16th cents there was a ...
Richard III

Richard III   Reference library

Randall Martin and Anthony Davies

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
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Literature, Shakespeare studies and criticism, Performing arts, Theatre
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3,559 words
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Oxford University Press
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...Machiavelli . The play was also influenced by the rhetorical conventions of Senecan tragedy, particularly Lycus’ wooing of Megara in Hercules furens for Richard’s seduction of Lady Anne in 1.2, and Troades for the lamenting women in 4.4. Clarence’s dream draws on Spenser ’s The Faerie Queene (printed 1590 ), Kyd ’s The Spanish Tragedy , and The Mirror for Magistrates ( 1559 and later editions), the last a well-known series of politically moralizing tragedies of princes and other public figures. Synopsis: 1.1 Richard, Duke of Gloucester,...

Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus   Reference library

Sonia Massai and Anthony Davies

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Literature, Shakespeare studies and criticism, Performing arts, Theatre
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2,504 words
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Oxford University Press

...Shakespeare modelled the character of Lavinia on Ovid ’s Philomel ( Metamorphoses , book 6). It is however generally agreed that instead of borrowing from specific sources, Shakespeare turned to popular dramatic precedents, such as Kyd ’s adaptation of Senecan revenge tragedy , and other Elizabethan tragedies of blood. Synopsis: 1.1 Saturninus and Bassianus, the sons of the late Emperor of Rome, claim the right to succeed their father, but Marcus Andronicus, a tribune of the people, offers the crown to his brother Titus, as a reward for his victorious...

Gabriel Bounin

Gabriel Bounin  

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(1535–c. 1586).Barrister and bureaucrat of Châteauroux, author of La Soltane (1561), the first tragedy in French on a modern subject. Bounin's Senecan account of the assassination of Soliman the ...
Schicksalstragödie

Schicksalstragödie  

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A genre popular in the early nineteenth century in Germany, ‘fate tragedy’ describes plays in which there can be no escape, often for a whole family, from the tragic outcome. ...
Cleopatra

Cleopatra  

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A tragedy in blank verse by S. Daniel, published 1594.It is on the Senecan model, and deals with the story of Cleopatra after the death of Antony.
Philotas

Philotas  

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A Senecan tragedy in blank verse by S. Daniel, published 1605.
revenge tragedy

revenge tragedy  

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A dramatic genre that flourished in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period, sometimes known as ‘the tragedy of blood’. Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (c.1587) helped to establish a demand for this ...
Cornelia

Cornelia  

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A tragedy translated by T. Kyd from a Senecan play by Robert Garnier, published 1594. It was reissued the following year under the title Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie.It deals with ...
Infernal Machine

Infernal Machine  

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Literature, Literary studies - plays and playwrights
A: Jean Cocteau Pf: 1934, Paris Pb: 1934 Tr: 1936 G: Trag. in 4 acts; French prose S: Thebes, mythical past C: 12m, 5fA Voice tells the story of Oedipus, ‘one of the most perfect machines devised by ...
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft  

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(1581–1647)Dutch playwright, poet, and historian. Hooft was a typical early modern artist who joined Samuel Coster when he established the Duytsche Academie in Amsterdam (1617), the forerunner of the ...
Jean de La Taille

Jean de La Taille  

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(1537–1608),French humanist playwright, the author of two Senecan tragedies (Saul le furieux, 1572; La Famine, 1573) and two prose comedies (also 1573) based on Italian models: Le Nécromant, modelled ...
tragedy

tragedy  

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A serious drama with an unhappy ending involving the downfall of the protagonist. One of Frye's four main literary genres, the others being comedy, romance, and satire. For Aristotle, this involved ...
Alexandre Hardy

Alexandre Hardy  

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(c.1575–c.1631),the first professional French playwright, attached to the company under Valleran-Lecomte which settled at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, where his plays, of which about 40 survive from a ...
Thomas Sackville

Thomas Sackville  

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(first earl of Dorset and Baron Buckhurst) (1536–1608), he entered parliament in 1558, was raised to the peerage in 1567, and held a number of high official positions. He wrote the Induction and ‘The ...
Étienne Jodelle

Étienne Jodelle  

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(1532–73),French Renaissance poet and dramatist, a member (with Ronsard and others) of the famous ‘Pléiade’. His Cléopâtre captive (1552) was the first French tragedy to be modelled on Seneca. ...
Samuel Daniel

Samuel Daniel  

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(1563–1619),became tutor of William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke, and later to Lady Anne Clifford, daughter of the countess of Cumberland. In 1592 he published Delia, a collection of sonnets ...
closet drama

closet drama  

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A play – often in verse – written to be read rather than performed, such as The Dynasts (1904–8) by Thomas Hardy (which later was adapted for performance by Granville ...
Petronius

Petronius  

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Author of the extant Satyrica, possibly identical with Petronius (1), the politician and arbiter elegantiae at the court of Nero. Given that the Satyrica belongs in style and factual detail to the ...

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