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Commentary on Act V, scene iii
The concept of the echo scene
comes from classical
literature. In his comedy Thesmophoriazusae (Women's Festival)
Aristophanes parodies an echo scene from Euripides' earlier (and now lost) Andromeda.
In book three of the Metamorphoses, Ovid depicts the love story of Narcissus
and Echo, a young girl doomed to speak only through repeating another's
words.
In Renaissance drama examples can be found in Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels, and Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus, among others.
