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Title: Invaluable Commentary
Review: Sarah Broadie's excellent commentary is the reason why you must buy this book. In limiting its scope to what the reader will immediately be concerned with (i.e. understanding what Aristotle is talking about, rather than e.g. discussing later criticism, etc) Broadie has leisure to be thorough. The translation is okay, but I think Irwin's (published by Hackett) is better on the whole.One complaint: I would prefer it if, in the text, references to the commentary were signalled somehow (w/ an asterisk (as in Irwin's) or whatever). Broadie's discussion is so insightful that it often reveals obscure implications of seemingly straight-forward lines, lines of which the reader might not be aware that he or she has anything to gain in reading a comment. So, one has to constantly keep a finger in the back of the book while reading, randomly checking the commentary and then going back to re-locate the relevant lines in the text.
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