ITERSOFTROY"CMtolibraryof tbeof {TorontoMiss Florence V*Keys,Two of SenecaTragediesof SenecaTwo TragediesMedea and The Daughtersof TroyRendered into with an IntroductionVerse,EnglishByElla Isabel HarrisBoston and New YorkMifflin andHoughton, CompanyM DCCCXCIX-45BY WOLFFE ANDCOPYRIGHT, 1898, LAMSON, COMPANYBY ELLA ISABEL HARRISCOPYRIGHT, 1899,ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDCONTENTSPAGEINTRODUCTION viiSources of Senecan Influence on Drama.EnglishTendencies of Senecan Influence as feltby EnglishDrama.Direct from SenecanBorrowings Tragedies.MEDEA iTHE DAUGHTERS OF TROY45INTRODUCTIONINFLUENCE ON ENGLISHSOURCES OF SENECANDRAMATHE interest of students in the dramasEnglishSeneca lies in the influence exertedof powerful bythem the evolution of the drama,upon Englishthese translations have been undertaken inandthe that be found useful tohope they may Engstudents oflish drama.Englishall the ascribed to Seneca areThough tragediesthe same are farnot so homohand,by yet theythat in them as a inliterarygeneous consideringone is not inclined to with thefluence, quarrelclassification that unites them under a name.singlethe noFor time needtherefore,present purpose,be in the discussion of their orspent authorshipexact but we turn at once to look fordate, maytheir as in the ofappearance agents developmentthe In this relation itserious drama. ismodern,to overestimate theirhardly possible determininginfluence itPerhaps maythroughout Europe ...
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