9 articles in this issue
Katie Fleming, Teresa Grant
"This volume narrates...the continued relevance of Seneca, of Senecan tragedy. But it also serves, we hope, to remind readers of the centrality of the reception of Seneca to his historical (and scholarly) fortunes. Which Seneca will be relevant next remai... see more
Emma Buckley
"In this essay I analyse the role of Seneca in Matthew Gwinne’s Nero: A New Tragedy, arguing that this hybrid historical tragedy exhibits a sophisticated ‘Senecan’ reception in its depiction of a tyrant whose power is rooted not only in historical ‘fact’ ... see more
Teresa Grant
On the use of Seneca by Royalist poets during the Commonwealth era. "These writers used Seneca to understand, enable and justify a coherent way of existing under tyranny, just as Seneca had tried to do in the first century AD."
Helen Slaney
Discusses the influence of Seneca on the Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee, in both style and subject matter.
Maire´ad McAuley
"reading the tragedies alongside psychoanalysis as separate but intersecting, mutually-implicative, discourses offers ways of thinking ‘otherwise’ about the dialectical problems posed by both, including Senecan drama’s reception in later tragedy and trage... see more
Henry Stead
Discusses Ted Hughes' revision process for David Turner's translation of Seneca's "Oedipus": "By great poetic skill and aggressive editing methods Hughes made Turner’s Oedipus his own. His play is in the end a mixed-source translation that no one else cou... see more
Katie Fleming
Discusses the influence of Hughes' translation/adaptation of Seneca's "Oedipus" on his poem cycle "Crow": "Hughes’s Seneca’s Oedipus, couched and understood alongside his wider oeuvre at that point, reflects and perhaps, more critically, reflects upon a p... see more
Elizabeth Barry
On Sarah Kane's "Phaedra's Love" as a modernized adaptation of Seneca's "Phaedra": "The connections that can be made between Kane’s work and Seneca’s...are not indicative of an extensive debt of influence beyond the one-act Phaedra, but there are suggesti... see more
The collective bibliography for the articles in this special issue.