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...attention to the way the words will be brought to full life on stage; the performance will need to make not just an aural but also a visual appeal. Another important difference between drama and prose fiction, however, lies in the absence (generally speaking) of a narrator. There are exceptions to be found, for instance in the chorus in Henry V and Romeo and Juliet, or,...

...attention throughout the Odyssey – he’s usually to be found either talking about himself or being talked about by someone else – and this in itself very much encourages the audience to think of him as the poem’s hero. You’ll focus a bit more closely on his wife Penelope too, however, and ask whether we might find in her a different kind of hero. In the next...