Besides the introductory and informative function, prologues of Seneca’s tragedies fulfill a function in setting, so that recipients of these are introduced into the drama and the characters’ pazos. For this purpose the autor designs the prologue as a sketch of tragedy, where elements that constitute a tragic drama -conflict and major and minor characters- are targeted with more or less independency of the main story. The variety of these pieces reveals the author’s experimenter will.
Bernal Lavesa, C. (2015).El héroe mítico como personaje secundario en los prólogos de las tragedias de Séneca. F. de Martino & C. Morenilla eds. Teatro y sociedad en la antigüedad clásica. en el umbral de la obra. Personajes y situaciones en el prólogo. 15-31
