Studies in Stichomythia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Studies in StichomythiaThe following dissertation aims to be a grouping of facts, not new to humanist scholars in the several fields, into a comprehensive treat ment, a non-technical presentation of a literary subject concerning which, too often, knowledge is taken for granted. Problems of philology and text criticism are only incidental to its main purpose. The chapters on drama subsequent to the Greek and Latin are admittedly from the layman's point of View. The chapter on particles and stylistic devices is distinct in treatment from the rest. The dissertation difiers, in this avoidance of technicalities and in the extent of literature considered, from the only notable work on the subject known to me, Die S tichomythie in der griechischen Tragb'die and Komb'die, ihre An'wendung and ihr U rsprung, by Adolf Gross (berlin, His treatment is more Objec tive than subjective, and reference lists add to the value of his book. In the many places where our discussions overlap, note has been made of the fact in footnotes. I must difier from him in his thesis that sticho mythia developed from choral responsion, while admitting the consider able part such musical symmetry must have played. Maccari, in a little pamphlet, S tickomythica (urbini, has touched (rather gropingly) on the place of stichomythia in comedy, an interesting topic but outside the limits of this dissertation. The few earlier papers and monographs on the whole subject are either attempts to restore absolute symmetry in line-dialogue by text revisions, or are too vaguely general as compared with the modern treatment of Gross.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.