“Gothic” elements in Seneca’s tragedies.
“Gothic” elements in Seneca’s tragedies.

Summary/Abstract: In the present article I discuss the remarkable fact that many of the motifs to be found in Seneca’s tragedies– such as a horrible death, a madman, an obsession or some supernatural agent – are also to be found inabundance in the work of “Gothic” authors such as Ann Radcliffe and Edgar Allan Poe. Indeed, these motifsare now commonly considered to be the hallmark of the Gothic genre. I also analyse some of the techniqueswhich Seneca uses in order to arouse fear and stimulate the reader’s imagination, comparing them with thoseused by Poe and other Gothic writers.

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