Sejanus

play by Jonson

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In tragedy: Shakespearean tragedy
…to have acted in Jonson’s Sejanus in 1603, a very Classical play, published in 1605 with a learned essay on Aristotle as preface. It can be assumed that Shakespeare knew the tradition. Certainly the Elizabethan theatre could not have existed without the Greek and Roman prototype. For all of its…
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