Acoustic Tyranny: Metre, Alliteration and Voice in "Christ before Herod"

• Autores: Clare Wright
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 34, 2012, págs. 3-26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Explores the effects of metre and alliteration in performance. Focusing on Herod’s opening speech, it is argued that the playwright makes full use of the flexibility of the alliterative verse form to simulate aurally the experience of tyranny