Norwood covers the whole field: the origins and literary history of tragedy, the Athenian theatre and how plays were staged, and then the surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides one by one, with plot, structure and his own frank judgements. He wrote for classical students and equally for general readers with little or no Greek.
A lively, opinionated companion for anyone reading the Greek tragedies in translation. Download the free EPUB.