Senecan Aesthetic - Slaney, Helen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, University of Oxford)

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.