From: World Literature Today | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: Raizis, M. Byron | COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As its descriptive explanatory subtitle explains, Mirasmeni Lefkosia (Divided Lefkosia [Nicosia, internationally]) is "a composite work for the stage with a choral accompaniment." Its flowing and melodic verse, free or conventional, and passages of lyrical prose are recited by two Narrators, a Chorus, and a set of Voices (i.e., Time, Caterina Cornaro, Cyprian the Presbyter, Maria of the Senate, Archbishop Cyprian, General Grivas, and Archbishop Makarios III). In properly chosen dictio...