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This book studies Seneca''s poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca''s dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca''s own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are th...
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This book studies Seneca''s poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca''s dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca''s own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are th...
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