Repetition is a common stylistic device that can play a variety of macrostructural roles: from that of aesthetically pleasing textual ornament, to that of emphatic sequence attracting the readers’ or listeners’ attention. This talk addresses those instances of repetition and recurrence in the contemporary drama that helps to establish the power position of the speaker who uses their superiority to intimidate, humiliate or otherwise degrade the addressee – usually in the role of a victim. The tra ...