First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles printed to the upper board and spine, and with a colour illustration by Bernard Safran to the upper board. With three colour and one black and white illustration. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.
'[A] comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human experience and cultural trends, namely literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography' (publisher's blurb).
Stock code: 29749
£80
Leiden and Boston: Brill, an imprint of Koninklijke Brill NV.
2015