THE MUSIC OF TRAGEDY. Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with just a little rubbing to the tail of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

'[The book] offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi A. Weiss demonstrates that Euripides' allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but are closely interwoven with the dramatic plot' (publisher's blurb).