Seneca in Early Elizabethan England

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10427482
AutoresJessica Winston (Idaho State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen59
Número1
Páginas29-58
Fecha de publicación2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRenaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/ren.2008.0232
OpenAlexW1991893688
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas37

In the 1560s a group of men associated with the universities, and especially the early English law schools, the Inns of Court, translated nine of Seneca’s ten tragedies into English. Few studies address these texts and those that do concentrate on their contributions to the development of English drama. Why such works were important for those who composed them remains unclear. This essay examines the translations against the background of the social, political, and literary culture of the Inns in the 1560s. In this context, they look less like forms of dramatic invention than kinds of writing that facilitated the translators’ Latin learning, personal interactions, and political thinking and involvement

Art · Context (archaeology · Drama · Literature · Political science · Politics · Classics · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity