A Handbook of Classical Drama consists of introductions to the various types classical drama, sketches of the lives of the dramatists, summaries of the remarkables features of their works, and an individual treatment of each of the estant Greek and Latin plays... A superb contribution. A book that will be widely used invaluable for facts, criticism, and interpretation. The author is a painstaking scholar..... He has sifted an immense literature, ancient and modern and distilled from it a keen and scholarsly discussion enhanced by numerous contributions of his own interpretations. A scholarsly, critical and an almost definitive compendium of the entire field of classical drama for which teachers and students of drama have long left the need. If the modern reader desires a better acquaintance with Greek and Roman drama he will find here a work which successfully combines the function of a guidebook and a volume of critical appreciation.