Ranjit Bolt (1959–2012)

Seneca’s Hercules reads more like a series of monologues than a play, and the translator has chosen to convert it into rhyming couplets, which gives it a rather Shakespearean style. The text is firmly in Juno’s camp, which is interesting - she’s so often portrayed as simply petty and jealous, but here she is motivated by a need to protect heaven from a man who’s grown powerful enough to take control of it, and who, having proven his worth on earth, is now looking to heaven for his next challenge.… (más)