Prologues to Shakespeare's theatre : performance and liminality in early modern drama

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Label

Prologues to Shakespeare's theatre : performance and liminality in early modern drama

Title remainder

performance and liminality in early modern drama

Statement of responsibility

Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann

Creator

• Bruster, Douglas

Contributor

• Weimann, Robert

Subject

• Drama -- Technique
• English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
• Mimesis in literature
• Openings (Rhetoric)
• Prologues and epilogues -- History and criticism
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Technique
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "This 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."
• "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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

822.3/3

Index

index present

LC call number

PR658.P68

LC item number

B78 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography