10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STICHOMYTHY»
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stichomythy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Stichomythy Noel Coward readers who are embarking upon a clinical study of
Broadwayese will find that their background is of considerable aid. For Coward
and Broadwayese have one thing in common. That is stichomythy. Stichomythy ...
In tragedy, which came into being at the time when the archaic art of Greece was
laying undue stress on form at the expense of true imitation, the briefer
conversations tended to fall into the line-dialogue, the so-called stichomythy. Dr.
Hancock ...
In tragedy, which came into being at the time when the archaic art of Greece was
laying undue stress on form at the expense of true imitation, the briefer
conversations tended to fall into the line-dialogue, the so-called stichomythy. Dr.
Hancock ...
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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
It is a necessary part of the dramatic action. From the modern point of view, of
course, this dramatized form of exposition seems most artistic. Curiously enough,
in Greek tragedy, it often appears in a stichomythy, which is probably the oldest ...
In tragedy, which came into being at the time when the archaic art of Greece was
laying undue stress on form at the expense of true imitation, the briefer
conversations tended to fall into the line-dialogue, the so-called stichomythy.
1OracuIa ...
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Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity: ...
22, occurring in the only other passage in his corpus in strict stichomythy, seems
to have escaped critical notice-presumably because 4 is a 'pastoral', 22 a 'hymn'.
Such is the power of generic taxonomies to close off enquiry across the lines ...
Gregory Nagy, Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Director Center for Hellenic Studies Gregory Nagy, 2014
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The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of ...
The content of the stichomythy is factual information, to be sure,62 but it also
points explicitly to the cause of Persian defeat, yet to be announced: Athens. The
revelation of what Athens means—the queen's perception that the land that ...
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Tradition and Dramatic Form in "The Persians" of Aeschylus
unpatterned, passionate, and rather repetitive — occur between actor and chorus
.32 Elsewhere in Aeschylus stichomythy is virtually the sole medium of dialogue.
33 None of the plays makes use of irregular trimeter exchanges as the Persians ...
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Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature
STICHOMYTHY Stichomythy (oxi- xopuGia) is dialogue between two characters
in alternating lines of a poem. It is common in verse drama, or epic, whereas
avxiXaPf|, in drama, is the division of a line between two speakers. STRATIGIS ...
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Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus ...
In passing, one can observe that formal analysis of versification, which has
already shown the relation of stichomythy, for example, to classifiable kinds of
action,61 would complement and support a general semiotics of Greek theater.
