Download or read book Seneca: Phaedra written by Roland Mayer and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. This book introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and he sets out some of the main lines of contemporary interpretation and performance practice for this play.