GREEK TRAGIC WOMEN ON SHAKESPEAREAN STAGES

Third printing of the first edition. Original black paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a small bump to the lower corner of the foot of the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is very slightly creased at the head of the spine.

Tanya Pollard, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, argues that ancient Greek tragedies centring on female characters such as Euripides' Hecuba and Iphigenia exerted a powerful and previously unacknowledged influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape, through readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.