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The essays ... [in this collection are] written in an accessible style that makes the volume useful and stimulating for a wide range of readers. * Classics For All Reviews * This collection of 12 essays on Euripides’ Bacchae by internationally recognized scholars and edited by a successful theater director attests to the timeless salience of this play. … Looking at Bacchae provides a compelling model for bringing thoughtful analysis and performance of Greek tragedy to a broader public. … In sum, the volume is a welcome contribution, bringing the highest level of academic scholarship to bear on this important tragedy in the interest of a broader audience for whom it may continue to hold salience. For this, Stuttard and the contributors should be applauded. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

The essays ... [in this collection are] written in an accessible style that makes the volume useful and stimulating for a wide range of readers. Classics For All Reviews

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David Stuttard has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama including Bacchae throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited Looking at Lysistrata (2010) and Looking at Medea (2014) for Bloomsbury. His other publications include Parthenon: Power and Politics on the Acropolis (2013) and A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives (2014).

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