Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ahl renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies.
In this powerful and imaginative translation of Medea, Frederick Ahl retains the compelling effects of the monologues, as well as the special feeling and pacing of Seneca's choruses.
| ISBN: | 9780801494321 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 1986 |
| Author: | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Frederick Ahl |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 116 pages |
| Series: | Cornell Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century plays Ancient history European history |
Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ahl renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies.
In this powerful and imaginative translation of Medea, Frederick Ahl retains the compelling effects of the monologues, as well as the special feeling and pacing of Seneca's choruses.
Medea features in the following genres: Classic and pre-20th century plays, Ancient history, European history
Medea is available in Paperback
Medea was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Frederick Ahl and published by Cornell University Press
Medea has 116 pages
Yes it is part of Cornell Paperbacks series