Drame

Light shelfwear to book. DJ spine slightly sunned. ; The aside is a familiar device in European drama, but little has been written about it in connection with the drama in which it orgiinated and developed. In this book it is suggested that it originated in Greek tragedy; asides and some related phenomena in tragedy are collected, and some false notions concerning their number and character are dispelled. The second part of the book deals with New Comedy and is able to eploit many recent discoveries of comic papyri. ; Oxford Classical & Philosophical Monographs; 230 pages