This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full perso

Phaedra is a Roman tragedy written by philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca before 54 A.D. Its 1280 lines of verse tell the story of Phaedra, wife of

Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect

Marlowe was the first writer to the translate the Amores, and thus the first to make the Ovidian cursus literally his own.