Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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.
Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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.
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Miniature books
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The tragedy of Romeo and juliet - the greatest love story ever.
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Miniature books
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The tragedy of Romeo and juliet - the greatest love story ever.
Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.
Shakespeare's Theatre
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192720764
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192720764
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Romeo and Juliet Manual
Author: Jonnie Patricia Mobley
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1885564031
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This manual offers a wealth of instructional tools, including background information on Shakespeare's sources, his life, his theater, and stage directions; suggestions for teaching the play; detailed summaries of every scene; questions and answers for every act; an annotated bibliography; a guide to pronouncing proper names; a Shakespearean time line; and and alphabetical glossary of terms.
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1885564031
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This manual offers a wealth of instructional tools, including background information on Shakespeare's sources, his life, his theater, and stage directions; suggestions for teaching the play; detailed summaries of every scene; questions and answers for every act; an annotated bibliography; a guide to pronouncing proper names; a Shakespearean time line; and and alphabetical glossary of terms.
Romeo & Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783198729045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783198729045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time
Author: Jean-Pierre Maquerlot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521475006
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521475006
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.
A Tale of Mystery
Author: Thomas Holcroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Gorboduc
Author: Thomas Norton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description