“Conscious Sin”: Seneca, Sarah Kane and the Appraisal of Emotion

Authors

  • Elizabeth Barry University of Warwick

Abstract

On Sarah Kane's "Phaedra's Love" as a modernized adaptation of Seneca's "Phaedra": "The connections that can be made between Kane’s work and Seneca’s...are not indicative of an extensive debt of influence beyond the one-act Phaedra, but there are suggestive parallels and divergences in both style and substance. The overlap in the writers’ concerns goes beyond a predilection in the writing of tragedy for philosophy, passion and gore to encompass sharp observations on such topics as luxury, bore- dom, adultery and, perhaps most significantly, death."

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Published

2013-03-14

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