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Seneca, Poetry, and Suffering

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Seneca: The Violence of Hercules

"I'd love to see Seneca on more syllabi and more performances," he says. "The violence in the plays is part of the fact that they're not, I mean, some of the violence in Hercules here, it's very disturbing." In Seneca, the violence isn't center stage, but the violence is one step closer,. There's... It's happening just behind a wall on a stage!"

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