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produce its effect even without movement or action in just the
same way as Epic poetry; for from the mere reading of a play
its quality may be seen.” Sidelights on the above aspect of
reading as recitation are available from the Roman practice of
public recitation as a principal form of book publication. Such it
remained until printing. Kenyon (Books and Readers , pp. 83­4)
reports on the Roman practice:
Tacitus describes how an author would be compelled to
hire a house and chairs, and collect an audience by
personal entreaty; and Juvenal complains that a rich man
would lend his disused house, and send his freedmen and
poor clients to form an audience, but would not bear the
cost of the chairs. The whole practice finds its analogy in
the modern musical world, where a singer is compelled to
hire a hall and do his best to collect an audience, in order