October 1996 Volume 11, Number 2 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles In Defense of Milman Parry: Renewing the Oral Theory William Merrit Sale Ei Pote: A Note on Homeric Phraseology R. Scott Garner A Narrative Technique in Beowulf and Homeric Epic Bruce Louden “In Forme of Speche” is Anxiety: Orality in Chaucer’s House of Fame Leslie K. Arnovick Early Voice Recordings of Japanese Storytelling J. Scott Miller The Kalevala Received: From Printed Text to Oral Performance Thomas A. DuBois A Furified Freestyle: Homer and Hip Hop Erik Pihel Orality and Literacy in the Commedia dell’Arte and the Shakespearean Clown Robert Henke Who Heard the Rhymes, and How: Shakespeare’s Dramaturgical Signals Burton Raffel The Mechanism of the Ancient Ballad: William Motherwell’s Explanation Mary Ellen Brown Supplemental Materials About the Authors