Phaedra

by Seneca

Book Overview

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies. Here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801494338
• ISBN13: 9780801494338
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher