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...

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Published in:Mnemosyne Vol. 68; no. 5; pp. 774 - 794
Main Author: Bexley, Erica
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2015
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