Roman Drama: A Reader

For students and teachers, Manuwald (Latin language and literature, U. College London, UK) provides an introduction to the fundamentals of Roman drama and its context, and a selection of representative dramatic texts in their original language, including excerpts from tragedy, comedy, praetexta, togata, and mime from the Republican and imperial periods, as well as a selection of key testimonia to the background of Roman theater and a section on the reception of Roman drama by poets in England up to the present. English translations are provided on facing pages. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)