Euripides' Bacchae: The Play and its Audience

The purpose of this book is to investigate what it was Euripides intended to convey to the theatre—going public of his day when he wrote his most exciting and most gruesome play, the Bacchae. The meanings which are to be attached to the action of a play are woven by an audience, both during and after the performance, into a single dramatic experience, labelled in this book as 'audience response'.
After some introductory chapters dealing with the history of the interpretation of the Bacchae a...