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Classical theatre / Theatre (general) 2012 247 x 174 mm 496pp 50 b/w illus. 4 maps 978-0-521-76178-9 Hardback £70.00 eBook available
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Textbook
Sophocles: Philoctetes Sophocles Edited by Seth L. Schein University of California, Davis
When Heroes Sing Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy Sarah Nooter University of Chicago
Uses close readings of the Greek texts to examine the lyrical voice of Sophocles’ heroes and to argue that their identities are grounded in poetic power. This study offers new insight into the ways that Sophoclean tragedy inherits and refracts the traditions of other poetic genres. 2012 228 x 152 mm 208pp 978-1-107-00161-9 Hardback £55.00 eBook available
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Music in Roman Comedy Timothy J. Moore Washington University, St Louis
Explains the nature of Roman comedy’s music and provides musical analyses of songs, scenes and whole plays. This book will be of interest to students of ancient theatre and Latin literature, scholars and students working on the history of music and theatre and performers working with ancient plays. 2012 228 x 152 mm 468pp 9 b/w illus. 65 tables 978-1-107-00648-5 Hardback £65.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107006485
Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with morphology, grammar and syntax and interpretation of the text in its historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. The introduction also gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day. Contents: Introduction; Philoctetes; Commentary. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
2013 216 x 138 mm 350pp 978-0-521-86277-6 Hardback c. £50.00 978-0-521-68143-8 Paperback c. £19.99 Publication May 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521862776
Theatre (general) The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History Edited by David Wiles Royal Holloway, University of London
and Christine Dymkowski Royal Holloway, University of London
This Companion offers students and general readers a lively set of essays on the why, when, where, what and how of writing theatre history. It considers how history is told, from whose point of view in our globalised world and what