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...