Rhetoric and Drama Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist historical linguistic musicological operatic cultural and literary studies perspective this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus—highlighting its Ancient foundations its various Early Modern formations as well as certain configurations enduring to this day—enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases a long lasting and highly prolific cross fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come