But the systematic roughness of the English genre yields darker riches.
(Still Braden’s Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition; pg. 204)
Tagged: #his arguments get pretty strained at points and imo this is def one of them but ... just #lol
“The revival of classical learning does not ‘cause’ the Renaissance, or import forces that somehow were not there in the later Middle Ages.”
—Gordon Braden, Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger’s Privilege (pg. 77)
Tagged: #SAY IT LOUDER FOR THOSE IN BACK
The book I’m reading is difficult (it discusses a lot of Greek and Roman texts I have never read and know only through Ovid), but shout-out to the author (Gordon Braden) for one of my favorite endnotes ever:
“I am sympathetic, but unconvinced.”
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