Description:
Provides background, context, plot summary and analysis, a survey of criticism and of the reception of the play from the Hellenistic period to modern times, including performance history.
Brief description: Isabelle Torrance is Associate Professor of Classics at the Aarhus Insitute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Review Quotes: "Condensing all this material in less than 130 pages and presenting it clearly without implications to facilitate understanding of even the most naive reader is a remarkable undertaking, and the result is certainly appreciable." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review