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Why on earth would you decide to write a book on Senecan tragedy when you're going to close your second chapter with this -

The greatest need in the criticism of this drama is to understand its legitimacy as drama of a new kind in the ancient tradition. It cannot be explained as an inferior imitation of Greek tragedy because, though inferior, it is not imitative in the strict sense of the word and has its own nature and motivation.

I'm talking to you, Norman T. Pratt (author of Seneca's Drama in 1982). How bored were you that you didn't write about a subject you thought actually had merit? Seriously. You twerp.