Six Tragedies

Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca''s plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who ar...