Specific points of influence from Greek and Senecan tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

English tragedies of the Senecan type tend to adopt the same practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Senecan stage: translations of Seneca's tragedies had begun to appear in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Wholly Senecan and dull, it is merely a translation of a French play of the same name by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Lipsius's De constantia thus has a different focus from the Senecan treatise De constantia sapientis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justus Lipsius] Reference

Clearly the only hope of dramatic advance for disciples of the Senecan school lay in improved dialogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Hence the technique of the work is largely of the semi-Senecan type with which Kyd and his school had familiarized the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

It will serve as an illustration of the kind of tragedy that was being evolved from Senecan models by plodding uninspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

We have remarked before on the tendency of all Senecan dramas to sententiousness and argument, than which nothing could be less poetical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

To understand this we ought perhaps to say something about the essential features of a Greek tragedy (Seneca's own model), and make a note of any special Senecan additions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

But while the Senecan and semi-Senecan methods had their dangers, their effect on English dramatists was in so far salutary that they necessitated care in plot-construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

No edition of his Senecan translations has been issued since 1591.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The arguments against the Senecan authorship are of little weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Senecan model, and generally, like Seneca's, with some ulterior intention.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference

The Senecan drama has lost touch with the stage and lacks both unity and life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

The Senecan drama finds its best modern development in the tragedies of Alfieri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Drawing on the Sophoclean and Senecan versions of the Oedipus story, George Hunka's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superfluities Redux] Reference

Whence the Senecan iambic is derived, is a question which cannot be answered with certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

The Elizabethan audience, as we have seen, loved action, and in these Senecan tragedies the action took place "off.".    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference

The imitation of Lucan in 70, 71 'magni resto nominis umbra,' is also strong evidence against the Senecan authorship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

The American remake is a remorseless Senecan tragedy that sacrifices the air of bittersweet sadness of Kim's original.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Indeed the actual number of Senecan dramas in English is very small indeed, though there may possibly be some undiscovered in MS.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

Unquestionably the body of Senecan tragedy, as Dr. Cunliffe's valuable research has shown, did much to colour the style and thought of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference

The diction is wholly un-Senecan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

English Senecan school of tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Sallust and Seneca, the “Senecan amble.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [STYLE IN LITERATURE] Reference

But this was not the way of the Senecan school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Senecan Tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference