Les tragèdies de Sèneca
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Text net
- Extensió:
- ~180.000 paraules · 845 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APALuci Anneu Sèneca. (n.d.). Les tragèdies de Sèneca. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/the-tragedies-of-seneca
- MLALuci Anneu Sèneca. "Les tragèdies de Sèneca." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/the-tragedies-of-seneca.
- ChicagoLuci Anneu Sèneca. Les tragèdies de Sèneca. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/the-tragedies-of-seneca.
De què tracta
Les tragèdies transmeses amb el nom de Sèneca: Medea, Fedra, Tiestes, Èdip, Les troianes i les altres, en traducció anglesa.
Context i història
Dues coses que cal saber. La primera és d'autoria: de les deu peces transmeses, l'Octàvia no pot ser seva —hi surt Sèneca com a personatge i s'hi explica la mort de Neró, posterior a la seva—, i l'Hèrcules a l'Eta és discutit. La segona és que no són teatre per representar: sembla que estaven fetes per llegir-se en veu alta, i això explica els parlaments llarguíssims i la crueltat explícita que a l'escena grega passava fora. Van ser el model de la tragèdia de venjança isabelina, Shakespeare inclòs.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
OEDIPUS King of Thebes; the son, as he supposed, of Polybus, king of Corinth, and Merope, his wife, but found to be the son of Laius and Jocasta. _Jocasta_ Wife and, as the play develops, found to be also the mother of Oedipus. _Creon_ Theban prince, brother of Jocasta. _Tiresias_ A celebrated prophet of Thebes, now old and blind. _Manto_ His daughter. _Old Man_ Sent from Corinth to announce to Oedipus the death of Polybus. _Phorbas_ Head-shepherd of the royal flocks of Thebes. _Messenger_ Who announces the self-inflicted blindness of Oedipus and the suicide of Jocasta. _Chorus_ Of Theban elders. THE SCENE is laid before the royal palace of Thebes; the play opens in the early morning of the day within which the tragedy is consummated. _An oracle once came to Laius, king of Thebes, that he should perish by his own son's hands. When, therefore, a son was born to him, he gave the infant to his chief of shepherds to expose on Mount Cithaeron. But the tenderhearted rustic gave the babe instead to a wandering herdsman of Polybus, the king of Corinth._ _Years later, a reputed son of Polybus, Oedipus by name, fearing an oracle which doomed him to slay his father and wed his mother, fled from Corinth, that so he might escape this dreadful fate. As he fared northward, he met and slew an old man who imperiously disputed the narrow way with him. Upon arriving at the Theban land, he read the riddle of the Sphinx, and so destroyed that monster which Juno had sent to harass the land which she hated; and for this service, Oedipus was made the husband of Jocasta, the widowed queen of Laius (who had recently been slain upon the road), and set upon the vacant throne._ _Now other years have passed, and sons and daughters have been born to the royal pair. But now a dreadful pestilence afflicts the state. Oedipus has sent Creon to consult the oracle, to learn the cause and seek the means of deliverance from the scourge.…