Douglas Bruster, Robert Weimann

Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre

Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU27550
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780415334433
• ISBN-10: 0415334438
• Artikelnr.: 13683453

Autorenporträt

Douglas Bruster, Robert Weimann

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Elizabethan prologue; Chapter 2 Prologue as threshold and usher; Chapter 3 Authority and authorization in the pre-Shakespearean prologue; Chapter 4 3 Frivolous jestures versus matter of worth, Christopher Marlowe; Chapter 5 Kingly harp and iron pen in the playhouse, George Peele; Chapter 6 From hodge-podge to scene individable, John Lyly; Chapter 7 Henry V and the signs of power, William Shakespeare; Afterword; Notes; Index;