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Senecan tragedy is a body of ten 1st century (A. D.) dramas of which eight were written by the Roman Stoic philosopher and politician L. Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger). Rediscovered by Italian humanists in the mid-16th century they became the models for the revival of tragedy on the Renaissance stage. The two great but very different dramatic traditions of the age—French neoclassical tragedy and Elizabethan tragedy—both drew inspiration from Seneca.
