The Roman Theatre and Its Audience

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Summary: Roman Theatre and It's Audience
Review: Good book. Tells the accurate potrayal of Roman Theatre...from Pantomime on....really helped with my research paper...worth reading

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Summary: A wonderful intro to a fascinating topic
Review: This is a fascinating book. Under one cover it manages to give a comprehensive account of the Roman theatre, while also providing a detailed description of the author's own ground-breaking research in actually construcitng a temporary Roman stage, and presenting his own translations of Plautus upon it. For once we have scholarship informed by actual theatrical know-how and experiment. Beacham writes in an easy but highly informed manner, and his insights are almost always provocative and sometimes exciting. He wears his impressive scholarship lightly. A fine book, and impressive record of innovative research