An essential; refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes; Menander; Plautus; Terence and Seneca.Features include:Playwright biographiesSynopses and detailed commentaryAdvice on the best translations availableA survey of the ancient theatre and its social and political background.Written by John Burgess; freelance director and former Head of New Writing at the National Theatre; this book is an indispensable resource for the theatregoer; student and general reader.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interested in severed heads? This IS the bookBy PandafilandaSimply hallucinating: very interesting research ladden with information; a splendidly wayward analysis; a challenging conclusion. I found it extremely useful for writing about severed heads (their images and their social; anthropological; iconic and symbolic meanings) in art; contemporary or other. Though the book is tightly packed; I enjoyed Kristevas sweeping speed in analysis and her flair in bringing in a wide spectrum of references --some of them quite unexpected though timely--on the subject. If you are interested in severed heads; this IS the book; or at least; start your reading list with it. But; hey! No gore here... just vintage Kristeva!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Illuminating read on a neglected area of art history - ...By Helize van VuurenIlluminating read on a neglected area of art history - by implication intimately linked to the authors earlier meditations on Powers of horror.0 of 4 people found the following review helpful. good investigationBy ElizabethI think this book obviously doesnt lack investigation and knowledge on the subject it deals with but unfortunately I think that the author fails in capturing the attention of the reader with too much art history and that; at least for me; makes it a bit dull and tiresome.
