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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weimann, Robert
Otros Autores: Bruster, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A Note on Texts; 1 The Elizabethan Prologue; 2 Prologue As Threshold and Usher; 3 Authority and authorization in the pre-Shakespearean Prologue; 4 Frivolous Jestures Versus Matter of Worth; 5 Kingly Harp and Iron Pen in The Playhouse; 6 From Hodge-Podge To Scene Individable; 7 Henry V and The Sins of Power; Afterword; Notes; Index.