Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy

Eric Dodson-Robinson, Ph.D. (2009), University of Illinois, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His publications explore violence and agency, especially in Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy.Contributors are: Florence de Caigny, Francesco Citti, Peter J. Davis, Eric Dodson-Robinson, Patrick Gray, Gianni Guastalla, Joachim Harst, Siobhán McElduff, Tomàs Martínez Romero, Ralf Remshardt, Helen Slaney, Christopher Star, Christopher Trinacty, and Jessica Winston.

"The collection provides a concise yet thorough picture of Seneca’s tragedies throughout the centuries and contributes both to contextualizing the history of classical reception and to understanding how European drama developed and continues to reinvent itself today." - Mary Hamil Gilbert, in: Religious Studies Review 42 (2016) 3"[U]n précieux outil de référence pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’histoire des tragédies et du théâtre latin en général, à la diffusion de Sénèque, à la circulation des idées et des formes artistiques antiques du Moyen-Âge à nos jours.(...) Nous saluerons la clarté de la présentation ainsi que le soin apporté à l’orthographe et à la ponctuation, tel que nous n’avons relevé aucune coquille." - P. Paré-Rey, in: BMCR 2017.07.49"[A] praiseworthy and beneficial publication, which should also be valued for the English translations from Latin and other languages – this makes the book accessible to a wider circle of readers. (...) [T]hroughout the collection of all texts a red thread weaves, bringing the fascinating realization that, with the exception of certain periods (middle ages and partly 19th century, when his influences was temporarily muted), Seneca “is a perennial contemporary and that his drama is like a cracked mirror in which almost any unsettled age finds its reflection” (R. Remshardt, p. 300)." - Daniela Čadková, in: Eirene LIV 2018

• ContentsList of Contributors1 IntroductionEric Dodson-RobinsonPart 1 - Antiquity2 Imago res mortua est: Senecan IntertextualityChristopher Trinacty3 Seneca Tragicus and StoicismChristopher Star4 Senecan Tragedy and the Politics of Flavian LiteraturePeter J. DavisPart 2 - Renaissance and Early Modern5 Seneca Rediscovered: Recovery of Texts, Reinvention of a GenreGianni Guastella6 The Reception of Seneca in the Crowns of Aragon and Castile in theFourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 101Tomas Martinez Romero7 The Reception of the Tragedies of Seneca in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in FranceFlorence de Caigny, Translated by Eric Dodson-Robinson8 Germany and the Netherlands: Tragic Seneca in Scholarship and on StageJoachim HarstEarly ‘English Seneca’: From ‘Coterie’ Translations to the Popular StageJessica Winston10 Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human DignityPatrick GrayPart 3 - Seneca in the Modern Age and Beyond11 Senecan GothicHelen Slaney12 Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Receptions of Seneca TragicusFrancesco Citti13 Seneca Our Contemporary: The Modern Theatrical Reception of Senecan TragedyRalf Remshardt14 Rereading Seneca: The Twenty-First Century and BeyondSiobhan McElduffIndex