Lysistrata: Plays for Performance Series

Abbreviations; Introduction; Lysistrata and the events of 411; The character of the play; Dramatis personae; Production; The Spartan dialect; The history of the text; Notes on lyric analyses; Sigla; Hypotheses; Dramatis personae; Text; Commentary; Indexes

`This is a very satisfying work, fully alert to matters linguistic, epigraphic, paratragic, and so forth, and provided with an extremely good index (the sub-headings ... will be very useful).' Greece and Rome
`This is an excellent book (both in contents and layout), and a much needed one...Henderson has rendered a signal service in increasing understanding of this comic masterpiece.' Choice
`well worthy of OUP's outstanding series ... this method of study would give a keen sixth-form or undergraduate student, with or without a knowledge of the language, a balanced and well-rounded knowledge of the play and its context ... An edition of Lysistrata which meets all criteria of scholarship has been long overdue and Henderson satisfies on all counts. The commentary is very detailed and painstakingly researched.'Peter Hartley, JACT Review
H. offers attention to many aspects of language, vase paintings, structural features, and the significance and general comic use of metres...offers the first full report of all the MSS and testimonial sources...provides persuasive attributions of speeches.