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Seneca by candlelight and other stories of Renaissance drama

by Lorraine Rae Helms

1997 201 pages eng

"English Seneca read by candlelight," wrote the Elizabethan author Thomas Nashe, "will afford you whole Hamlets." In the early decades of this century, literary and theater historians took Nashe at his word, finding Senecan tragedy at the source of Renaissance drama. More recently, critics have been…

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