What is Dramatic Recitation?
This article examines the literary evidence for recitations of drama in first- and early second-century C.E. Rome. It begins by contextualizing the practice of recitatio, and thereafter focuses on the central question of how a solo speaker could recite a play so as to render it intelligible for his...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 68; no. 5; pp. 774 - 794 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2015
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