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

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

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

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

Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart