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  2. Senecan tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Senecan influence is also evident in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, and in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet. All three share a revenge theme, a corpse-strewn climax, and The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet also have ghosts among the cast; all of these elements can be traced back to the Senecan model. The ghosts are of particular ...

  3. Phaedra (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    The structure and style of Senecan tragedies such as Phaedra have exerted great influence on drama throughout the ages, particularly on tragedy in the time of Shakespeare. Technical devices such as asides and soliloquies , in addition to a focus on the supernatural and the destructive power of obsessive emotions, can all be traced back to ...

  4. Octavia (play) - Wikipedia

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    Octavia is a Roman tragedy that focuses on three days in the year 62 AD during which Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina).The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of the philosopher Seneca's advice to rein in his passions.

  5. Titus Andronicus - Wikipedia

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    Titus's revenge may also have been influenced by Seneca's play Thyestes, written in the first century AD. In the mythology of Thyestes, which is the basis for Seneca's play, Thyestes, son of Pelops, King of Pisa, who, along with his brother Atreus, was exiled by Pelops for the murder of their half-brother, Chrysippus.

  6. Category:Plays by Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who is also known as Seneca the Younger.Octavia is included in the category, as although it is very probably not by him, [1] it is usually included in collections of Seneca's plays, such as the Penguin Classics book of Seneca's plays, Four Tragedies and Octavia

  7. Oedipus (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus is the king of Thebes, husband of Jocasta, and he is the supposed son of king Polybus of Corinth.He is the main protagonist of the play.; Jocasta is the widow of the former king Laius, wife of Oedipus and sister of Creon.

  8. Troades (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Translator R. Scott Smith wrote that Seneca's attempt in the work to weave two episodes together "means that the play is somewhat dissociated – a 'flaw' that critics have sometimes brought to bear against it", but stated that "in the place of unity, however, there is symmetry." [4]

  9. Medea (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [1] It was written around 50 CE. The play is about the vengeance of Medea against her betraying husband Jason and King Creon.