stichomythy

• a variation of stichomythia.
  stichomythia

  noun

  dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.

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stichomythy

The playwright still stuck to stichomythy, a tendency reflected in last week's production.

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The Greeks had a word for this system: stichomythy, dialog one line at a time.

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