Talk:Senecan tragedy

The description of the dramas as bombastic and pale imitations of Greek originals is an old fashioned prejudice totally out of line with modern research into Neronian literature. This article is full of bias and doesn't even use specific examples from the plays to prove its points--it just asserts Seneca favored form over content. This needs serious rewriting--Seneca's influence was the midwife at the birth of modern drama.

Moreover, while 19th century audiences preferred the "purity" of the Greek originals, they are often just as "bombastic," long-winded, and rhetorical as Seneca's plays--they were certainly no more naturalistic, and in many ways, less vivid in their use of language. But if someone described an Athenian tragedian as being inept and hollow, it would cause a stink.

Rewrite this article, please!

Several parts of this article are exact copies of the text from Encyclopædia Brittanica's entry for "Senecan Tradgedy." In fact, almost all of this article is stolen word-per-word from the entry. The end of the first paragraph, all but the first sentence of the second (though event the first sentence is nearly the same words), the entire fourth paragraph, and nearly all of the fifth and final paragraph are identical.See the original source here^[1]

MatthewA335 (talk) 04:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)