STAGED NARRATIVE. Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy.

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block edge is a little toned. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper, which is mildly creased at the folds, and lightly toned to the upper edge.

An interpretation of the 'messenger' figure in classical Greek tragedy by James Barrett, Research Associate and Faculty Fellow in Classics at Colby College, that places the tragic messenger within their linguistic, psychological and theatrical contexts. The author examines this figure in Aeschylus's 'Persians', Sophocles' 'Electra' and 'Oedipus Tyrannus', and Euripides' 'Bacchae' and 'Rhesos'.