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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.