Seneca by Candlelight and Other Stories of Renaissance Drama

by Lorraine Helms

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

"English Seneca read by candlelight," wrote the Elizabethan author Thomas Nashe, "will afford you whole Hamlets." In the early decades of the twentieth century, literary and theater historians took Nashe at his word,
finding Senecan tragedy at the source of Renaissance drama. More recently, critics have been inclined to dismiss traces of classical antiquity as a superficial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234138
• ISBN13: 9780812234138
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"