Download or read book The Senecan Aesthetic written by Helen Slaney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Senecan Aesthetic surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan tragedy has been staged, from the Renaissance up to the present day, and restores Seneca to a canonical position among the playwrights of antiquity, recognizing him as one of the most important, most revered, and most reviled.