This very valuable volume has encompassed a huge amount of material within a relatively small space with great skill and elegance. -- Fiona Macintosh, University Lecturer in Classical Reception, Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, UK Helene Foley provides an excellent and accessible guide to Hecuba, a play that has regained prominence both in scholarly study and contemporary performance and adaption. She provides a judicious overview of the main interpretive lines that have been applied to a tragedy that is both emotionally wrenching and rhetorically and ethically challenging. A particularly strong feature is the survey of the changing reception of the play, from antiquity to the present, with a perceptive and detailed analysis of the performance tradition during the last two generations. -- Donald J. Mastronarde, Melpomene Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley, USA