Seneca's Original Themes in Shakespearean Tragedies

The Shakespearean exposure of Elisabethan period life and customs had, over the years, a different impact on the reader (or viewer). Likewise Roman drama writers, Shakespeare presented qualities and faults of his contemporary time. Moreover, he was, as Seneca was for him, a source of inspiration for generations of writers that would be to come. The power of scenery, of plots, of characters, of psychology in his work is the one that makes us conscious about the still-contemporary social issues that transcend through time.