Pickard-Cambridge, Arthur Wallace; John Gould and David M. Lewis — The Dramatic Festivals of Athens

London, Clarendon Press, 2003. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Black and color illustrated paper over boards with white lettering; xxiii, 365 pp followed by unpaginated bw plates. This reissue with a new supplement is fully expanded and brought up-to-date. It discusses the organization of the dramatic festivals, describes the acting style, actors, costumes, dancing, music, and audiences' tastes and behavior, and provides a full presentation of the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence on which any discussion of the dramatic festivals is based, such as the difficulties of interpretation. Contents: Part 1: The lesser festivals: The Anthesteria -- The Lenaia -- The rural Dionysia -- The Panathenaia -- Part 2: The great or city Dionysia -- Part 3: The Actors -- Terminology, etc. -- Number of actors and distribution of parts -- Delivery: speech, recitative, and song -- Voice and enunciation -- Gesture -- Part 4: The costumes : Introduction (general character of the evidence) -- Tragedy and satyr play -- Comedy -- Part 5: The chorus -- The character, functions, and movements pof the chorus -- Dancing in drama -- Music in drama -- Part 6: The audience -- Part 7: The artists of Dionysus -- Appendix: Inscriptions relating to the 'Artists of Dionysus' -- Additional note: Michael Psellos on the music of tragedy. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .