Seneque, Tragedies
edited by Francois-Regis Chaumartin, translated by Olivier Sers
Les tragedies de Seneque ont inspire directement, et parfois litteralement, Shakespeare, Corneille et Racine, et pourtant, jusqu’au XXe siecle, on les tenait pour injouables et leur reputation etait execrable aupres des critiques. Tout a change a partir de 1932 ou Georges et Ludmilla Pitoeff ont monte Medee, suscitant l’enthousiasme d’Antonin Artaud qui des lors vit en lui le plus grand auteur tragique de l’histoire […]. Je pleure en lisant son theatre d’inspire, et j’y sens sous le verbe des syllabes crepiter de la plus atroce maniere le bouillonnement des forces du chaos . Aujourd’hui, on ne se pose plus la question de savoir si Seneque est jouable, on le joue. L’ecriture versifiee est un element scenique majeur de ces textes dont une grande partie etait chantee, voire dansee. C’est entre autres pour cette raison qu’on les trouvera traduits ici, non seulement vers pour vers, mais avec la meme variete metrique que dans le texte original.
- Edited by Francois-Regis Chaumartin
- Translated by Olivier Sers
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