Authors: K. B. Frost
ISBN-13: 9780198147237, ISBN-10: 0198147236
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 1988
Edition: (Non-applicable)
K. B. Frost is a civil servant.
Most studies of Menander's comedies concentrate on the playwright's talent for characterization and plot construction while ignoring his artful use of theatrical conventions to create live theater. This book, based on close readings of the surviving texts, is the first to examine systematically the techniques of stagecraftparticularly stage movementemployed by the playwright in his effort to work successfully within theatrical limits.