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  2. Senecan tragedy - Wikipedia

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    The first English tragedy, Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca. (As it happens, Gorboduc does follow the form as well as the subject matter of Senecan tragedy: but only a very few other English plays—e.g.

  3. 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.

  4. List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays - Wikipedia

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    Senecan tragedy specifically features a declamatory style, and most of his plays use exaggerations in order to make his points more persuasive. They explored the psychology of the mind through monologues, focusing on one's inner thoughts, the central causes of their emotional conflicts, dramatizing emotion in a way that became central to Roman ...

  5. Naturales quaestiones - Wikipedia

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    Naturales quaestiones (Natural Questions) is a Latin work of natural philosophy written by Seneca around AD 65. It is not a systematic encyclopedia like the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, though with Pliny's work it represents one of the few Roman works dedicated to investigating the natural world.

  6. Thyestes (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Thyestes is a first century AD fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children who were slaughtered and served at a banquet by his brother Atreus. [1]

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  9. 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