"List of illustrations List of contributors Preface Plan of the city of atbens Part I:Tragedy as an institution:the historical context 1 ‘Deep plays:theatre as process in Greek civic life 2 A show for Dionysus 3 The audience of Athenian tragedy 4 The pictorial record Part Ⅱ:The plays 5 The sociology of Athenian tragedy 6 The language of tragedy:rhetoric and communicati N_7 Form and performance 8 Myth into muthos:the shaping of tragic plot Part Ⅲ:Recepti N_9 From repertoire to c N_N_10 Tragedy adapted for stages and screens:the Renaissance to the present 11 Tragedy in performance:nineteenth-and twentieth-century productions 12 Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy Glossary Chronology Texts,commentaries and translations Works cited Index"