Books by Larry F. Norman

Turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. This title explores how the authoritative status of Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous.

This volume investigates the dialogue between the newly-invigorated European theatre of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and the plastic arts. The interactions between the spectator and the spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual are discussed.