Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege

Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege by Braden, Gordon. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300032536.

Senecas influence on Renaissance drama has recently been challenged by critics who feel that its significance has been badly overstated. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Gordon Braden restores a conviction of Senecas importance, both by examining the material from a new perspective and by relating Senecan tragedy and it s Renaissance popularity to larger events--political, social, philosophical, and psychological--in the evolution of Western sensibility.