BECOMING FEMALE: The Male Body in Greek Tragedy.

First edition. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing to the tail of the spine, and a little bump to the head of the spine. The contents, with some minor creasing to the prelims and a touch of toning to the top and fore-edges of the text block, are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original dustwrapper, which is lightly toned to the top edge of the flaps, and a little rubbed and creased at the extremities.

'Becoming Female, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity' (publisher's blurb).