Playbills Broadway Show Caesar/Anthony Cleopatra

"Woodruff's translation) is clear, fluent, and vigorous, well thought out, readable and forceful. The rhythms are right, ever present but not too insistent or obvious. It can be spoken instead of read and so is viable as an acting version; and it keeps the lines of the plot well focused. The Introduction offers a good survey of critical approaches. The notes at the foot of the page are suitably brief and non-intrusive and give basic information for the non-specialist.' " CHARLES SEGAL, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, Harvard University