These readers doubtless are led by the chorus who, as Rosenmeyer notes (in The Masks of Tragedy, Austin, 1963, p. 219), do not consider Alcestis in her own right nor can they appreciate her decision; see also S. E. Scully, "Some Issues in the Second Episode of Euripides' Alcestis," Greek Tragedy and its Legacy: Essays presented to D. J. Conacher, ed. M. Cropp, E. Fantham, S. Scully, Calgary, 1986, 137.