Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham. Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford.

"In the present era, theater serves mostly as entertainment. Hall and Macintosh beautifully reveal a time and place that lies beyond this modern looking glass. Theater historians will find much of interest here.... Only the rare scholarly work proves itself both entertaining and of interest to multiple fields of knowledge, and this is such a work.... Hall and Macintosh conclude this valuable volume with a detailed performance chronology, an extensive bibliography, and a thorough index. This book should be read not only by theater scholars and students but also by those interested in history and the political and social sciences. Highly recommended."--Choice

"Hall and Macintosh's solid, comprehensive examination is performance history with impeccable scholarship."--Elizabeth Helsinger, Studies in English Literature