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[ SOLD OUT ] TAPLIN, O., Greek Tragedy in Action. Methuen, London, n.d.(>1978). X,203p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. Some pen strikes and a few annotations. Name on front cover. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'This attractive little book by Oliver Taplin is designed to bring to a wider readership findings which will be familiar to readers of his major work (...). Here again T. eloquently argues that the action of Greek tragedy is both inseperable from and deducible from the text and that what characters do in tragedy often has a significance which heightens or even goes beyond what they say. (...) Instead of treating the plays (he discusses - ND) sperately, he assembles from them selected phenomena relating to the staging and discusses them under six headings, 'exits and entrances', 'actions and gestures', 'objects and tokens', tableaux, noises, and silences', mirror scenes' (...), and 'scenic sequence'. (...) In the last two chapters he draws together the threads of the inquiry, attempting to assess the emotional impact of tragedy in performance and knocking down various fashionalbe theories about how one should perform tragedy.' (DAVID BAIN in The Classical review (New Series), 1980, pp.38-39). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 0 (Antiquarian)