Provides a general account of the Roman theater and its audience, and records some of the results of the author's experiments in constructing a full-scale repli

Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts.

This book is a definitive architectural study of Roman theatre architecture. In nine chapters it brings together a massive amount of archaeological, literary,an

Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of