Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors andtheir popular reception from the origins of theater in ClassicalGreece to the Roman Empire Presents a

A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related discipli

The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric “An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what ‘everybody knows’ about the relation of