An essential companion for the student of literature. Works selected include the best-known works of the classical Greek and Roman theatre.
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world.
This series has existed for the past 50 years.
(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays.
This collection of twenty essays examines the art, profession and idea of the actor in Greek and Roman antiquity, and has been commissioned and arranged to cast as much interdisciplinary and transhistorical light as possible on these ...
“Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century ...
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This book Offers new research insights that will contribute to the future developments of the field, outlining new interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the importance of performing arts in the ancient world and its reception in ...
Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts.
ARISTOPHANES suggests that he was an unsuccessful playwright; as it happens, none of his work (or that of his father) survives. [ANCIENT SOURCES : Aristophanes, Frogs 151, Knights 401, Peace 803] ...