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

The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept

This volume takes a new approach to Roman drama by looking at comic and tragic plays from the Republican and imperial periods in ‘context’. By presenting a

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginni