ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates a narrower field, how odes are connected specifically to the following entrance and, to a lesser degree, the preceding exit. Taplin's theory states that the basic structural pattern involves the rearrangement of actors by means of exits and entrances around songs. Connections between songs and entrances and exits should, therefore, be expected. The way Euripides structured his plays reveals a great deal about their meaning, and the links he made at the important junctures of song and entrance and exit inform us about the larger issues of the dramas. Euripides wrote several songs in which the chorus proclaims one thing and the following entrance displays another, even the very opposite. Euripides frequently uses direct address in his lyrics. Often the person addressed is already on stage. Verbal echoes at the juncture of entrance or exit and song can serve as links between the lyric and spoken parts of the dramas.
