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Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre - Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama (Paperback, New)
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Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre - Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama (Paperback, New)
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This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected
form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in
performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert
Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in
dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions
performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England. While its most
basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the
prologue's more significant threshold position is used to usher
spectators and actors through a rite of passage. Engaging competing
claims, expectations and offerings, the prologue introduces,
authorizes and, critically, straddles the worlds of the actual
theatrical event and the 'counterfeit' world on stage. In this way,
prologues occupy a unique and powerful position between two orders
of cultural practice and perception. Close readings of prologues by
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Marlowe, Peele and
Lyly, demonstrate the prologue's role in representing both the
world in the play and playing in the world. Through their detailed
examination of this remarkable form and its functions, the authors
provide a fascinating perspective on early modern drama, a
perspective that enriches our knowledge of the plays'
socio-cultural context and their mode of theatrical address and
action.
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