Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1515 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Messenger's Speech
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The idea
Because violence happens offstage, a Greek play often gives its most dramatic events to someone describing them afterwards. That makes the messenger's report a set-piece of narration inside a drama, and unit ten's questions about a teller apply to it directly.
In practice
The worst events arrive as narration.
Where people slip
Unit ten's apparatus applies.
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