Decoding Senecan innovation to tragic genre tropes through anagrams, the failure of passion-restraint, and a broken play

This thesis shows how changes to conventional tragic structure and stories—like the number of acts, the victor of the passion-restraint scene, or the characters’ foreknowledge about future actions in the play—affects the play’s content, influence outcomes, and shape characters’ worldviews. In Hercu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brady, Christian
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50686