Seneca's Tragedies, Volume I

All ten tragedies in English verse, from Medea and Phaedra to Thyestes and Octavia, with an essay on how they shaped early English drama. Each play comes with a comparison to its Greek model.

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Medea and The Daughters of Troy in a readable verse translation, with an introduction tracing lines and scenes Elizabethan playwrights borrowed from Seneca. A good first step into Senecan tragedy.

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Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules Oetaeus, The Phoenician Women and Octavia in Latin with English on the facing page. Completes the bilingual set of all the plays.

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The only surviving Roman history play, about Nero's first wife and her fall, translated with notes and an introduction on its authorship. Long credited to Seneca, who appears in it as a character.

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