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THE ALCESTIS - N.W. Slater Euripides: Alcestis. Pp. x + 141, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Paper, £16.99, US$27.95 (Cased, £50, US$90). ISBN: 978-1-78093-473-0 (978-1-78093-472-3 hbk).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2014

John Given*
Affiliation:
East Carolina University

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References

1 One argument for the raised stage is that it assists in vocal projection, but recent work highlights how much the mask itself projects the voice. See Cohen, A.R., Didaskalia 7 (2007)Google Scholar, http://www.didaskalia.net/issues/vol7no1/cohen.html; Tsilfidis, A. et al. , Acta Acustica 99 (2013), 8290 Google Scholar.

2 S. well avoids the sin, recently decried by Martindale, of conducting reception studies by ‘conform[ing], relatively inertly, to traditional positivistic enquiry’ ( Martindale, C., Classical Receptions Journal 5 [2013], 171 Google Scholar).