Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays
(2011)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. (2011). Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays. Trends in Classics, 3(2), 365-393. https://doi.org/10.1515/tcs.2011.016
This article analyzes the Senecan background to Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love by focusing upon both playwrights' predilections for graphic violence and sexual content. Kane's version of the Phaedra story presents sex, death and mutilation as acts that... Read More about Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays.