Word: lliade
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Royal Hunt is just as purely an epic as is the lliad (and one could point out numerous parallels between the two). It also shows high quality in all six departments postulated by Aristotle for tragedy: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, song. Shaffer says he was aiming for "total this theatre," and he definitely has achieved it. For this is not just a play to be spoken. Lighting, sets, costumes, masks, instrumental music, singing, sound effects, mime, dance, ritual-all are wonderfully integrated and absolutely indispensable...
Another "index of authorship," average sentence length, was employed in a statistical study done elsewhere to determine whether or not a single person wrote the lliad. Mosteller tried this but found that it would not work with the Federalist problem, because Madison and Hamilton wrote sentences similar in length, moreover, they both shared "a complicated style and phrasing...
Kilgore's list includes Montesquieri, "Persian Letters"; Charles B. Brown, "Wieland"; Karl Net, "An Outline of the History of Music"; Albert L Guerard, "Preface to World Literature"; Cecil Noura, "Tradition and Design in the lliad"; Crane Brinton, "Anatomy of Revolution"; Voltaire, "Letters on the English." and A. H. Quinn, "Representative American Plays, Century 3rd Edition...
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