Prologues to Shakespeare''s Theatre - Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Bruster, Robert Weimann Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

List of contents

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;

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Bruster, Douglas Weimann Bruster, Bruster Douglas, Robert Weimann, Weimann Robert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2004
• EAN: 9780415334433
• ISBN: 978-0-415-33443-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies