Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Theater of the Polis -- The Ephebes' Song: Tragoidia and Polis -- Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama -- The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology -- Thebes: Theater of Self and Society in Athenian Drama -- Kreousa the Autochthon: A Study of Euripides' Ion -- An Anthropology of Euripides' Kyklops -- Why Satyrs Are Good to Represent -- Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Athenian Democracy
The Demos and the Comic Competition -- Drama and Community: Aristophanes and Some of His Rivals -- Making Space Speak -- The ""Interior"" Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading -- The Idea of the Actor -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Passages Discussed -- General Index