This title offers a survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides an author-by-author examination of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander plus how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out and who watched them.
Kenneth McLeish studied Classics and Music at Worcester College,
Oxford. Once a full-time translator, author and dramatist, he
published extensively including The Good Reading Guide,
Shakespeare's People, The Theatre of Aristophanes, Companion to the
Arts in the Twentieth Century, Myth, The Listener's Guide to
Classical Music and Crucial Classics (both with Valerie McLeish)
and The Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (as general editor).
His original plays and his translations - from ancient Greek drama,
as well as from Strindberg, Ibsen Moliere and Strindberg - have
been widely performed, most notably by the National Theatre and the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Trevor R. Griffiths is a Visiting Honorary Professor in Humanities
at the University of Exeter, UK, and formerly Professor of Theatre
Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK.
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