First we have the ghost of Tantalus and his goading Fury after they exit they never return to the stage. For one thing, it's not dramatically very interesting: the five ‘acts’ (though ‘act’ needs to go in inverted commas, since there’s nothing in the original text to indicate that it was designed to be broken down into separate scenes or acts despite the Renaissance assumptions on that score)-the five acts are rather discontinuous from one another. It really does come over as rather unpleasant, even crude. It can, then, be something of a disappointment actually to read a play like the Thyestes. It’s a old chestnut of Shakespearean studies how much he took from Seneca, not only in-effect rewriting the Thyestes (in Titus Andronicus) but also developing the very Senecan, very Thyestian (and profoundly un-Greek) theme of revenge in a play such as Hamlet. This is because it was Seneca, and not particularly the Greeks, who exercised the greatest influence on English Renaissance drama, and therefore upon the world’s single most significant writer of tragedy-I mean Shakespeare, of course. But of course there’s one sense in which Seneca has been even more influential on the development of tragedy. It’s difficult to deny that Attic drama has a much greater importance for our current literatures than the Roman plays. There are thousands of monographs on the Aeschylean and Sophoclean and Euripidean stuff, and only a few specialists resurrecting the musty violence of the Latin. But it’s his take on tragedy that interests me here, specifically in response to the aesthetic tenets laid down so famously by Aristotle, katharsis and so on.Īll the best classical tragic drama is, if you believe the critics, Greek. The other volumes are all letters and philosophical works that articulate. Of the ten tomato-coloured volumes of the ‘Loeb Classical Library’ Seneca only two are drama-there's the one containing the Thyestes, at the top of this post.
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