books.google.co.uk - Spectator Politics is the first major study of metatheatre, or theatrically self-conscious performance, in Aristophanes. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving comedies in the Western tradition. Slater demonstrates that...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Spectator_politics.html?id=WoEPlVY9vYEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSpectator politics