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Seneca on the stage
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In the absence of the stage directions employed by their modern equivalents, ancient playwrights were obliged to ''encode'' information into their texts that can be described as implicit stage directions. It is the presence of such information that permits modern ''production criticism,'' intended to determine how ancient plays were meant to be staged. Since the early nineteenth century, it has been debated whether Seneca's tragedies were or were not written for stage production. Seneca's dramatic texts contain material that looks precisely like the implicit stage directions found in all other ancient drama, and when his plays are subjected to production criticism, it emerges that they make sound dramaturgic sense. Also, Seneca avails himself of the same artificial and sometimes irrational dramatic conventions used by other ancient playwrights, a fact often ignored by those who argue that Seneca was only writing plays for reading or recitation. The internal evidence of the plays offers much to support, and little to contradict, the idea that his plays were written with the stage in mind.
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“'Tensile movement' goes both outwards and inwards: the outwards breathing of, say, an animal is the power that producesor more literally 'brings to completion' (ἀποτελεστική)qualities and quantities, which we can perceive in one another: hence, we might say that Aristotle's bull is 'swollen with anger' when we perceive the bull's exhalation.39”
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- Authors
- Sutton, D. F.
- Corresponding author
- Sutton, Dana F.
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 1986-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W1558701626
- Cited by
- 111
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 30 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 2.31
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- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Theatre and Performance Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Keywords
- Seneca, Roman tragedy, ancient drama, dramaturgy, theatrical conventions
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