Plays Roswitha of Gandersheim (best way to read books .txt) 📖

Another “stage direction” omitted by Celtes. ↩

This admonition to “spectators” is in the MS. and seems inexplicable if Roswitha wrote her plays to be read, not performed. ↩

When Paphnutius was acted, the dialogue of the “disciples” was allotted to several different actors, with the interesting result that some definite characters emerged. ↩

It has been my duty to preserve this rather tiresome numerical discourse, which no doubt Roswitha introduced to impress the “learned men” to whom she submitted her work, because it throws an interesting light on the studies pursued in such a monastery as Gandersheim in the 10th century. Equivalent modern English terms have been employed where the original, by change of usage, has become misleading. For example, “divisor” and “quotient” have been substituted for “denomination” and “quantity.” ↩

Plays
was published in 1923 by
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim.
It was translated from Latin by
Christopher St. John.

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