This article considers the Renaissance version of Seneca’s tragedy Thyestes written by Roland Brisset in 1589; it focuses on two themes characterizing this work: tyranny and horror. By analyzing Brisset’s stylistic and linguistic choices, we can see that the writer born in Tours has read this myth as an image of late 16th-century French historical and social context, deeply marked by civil and religious wars. A Christian colour in the translation from Latin, several non-conventional mythological references and a greater presence of oratorical pathos than tragical pathos, set up Thyeste by Brisset in Renaissance sensibility and aesthetics.
Il 'Thyeste' di Roland Brisset (1589): dal teatro mitologico all'attualità civile
MARTINUZZI, Paola
2016-01-01
Abstract
This article considers the Renaissance version of Seneca’s tragedy Thyestes written by Roland Brisset in 1589; it focuses on two themes characterizing this work: tyranny and horror. By analyzing Brisset’s stylistic and linguistic choices, we can see that the writer born in Tours has read this myth as an image of late 16th-century French historical and social context, deeply marked by civil and religious wars. A Christian colour in the translation from Latin, several non-conventional mythological references and a greater presence of oratorical pathos than tragical pathos, set up Thyeste by Brisset in Renaissance sensibility and aesthetics.
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