Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre

Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

By: Douglas Bruster, Robert Weimann

Write A Review

Paperback | 11 November 2004 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
208 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
21.59 x 13.97 x 1.12

Paperback

RRP $79.99

$63.95

20%OFF

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

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.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

RRP $79.99

$63.95

20%
OFF

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

Paperback

RRP $59.99

$49.25

18%
OFF

The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Hardcover

RRP $180.00

$132.25

27%
OFF

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Race and Narrative Innovation

Hardcover

RRP $180.00

$132.25

27%
OFF

Documentary Theatre and Performance : Forms of Drama - Andy Lavender

$77.40

23%
OFF

The Shoemakers' Holiday : Arden Early Modern Drama - Thomas Dekker

RRP $170.00

$125.75

26%
OFF

Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories : Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory - Kirsten Kumpf Baele

$200.95

29%
OFF

Schindler's Ark

Winner of the 1982 Man Booker Prize

Paperback

RRP $23.99

$21.90

Drama Classics

Paperback

RRP $14.99

$14.35

The Winter's Tale

New Cambridge Shakespeare

Paperback

RRP $32.95

$17.25

48%
OFF

The Elizabethan prologue : text, actor, performance	p. 1
Prologue as threshold and usher	p. 31
Authority and authorization in the pre-Shakespearean prologue	p. 57
Frivolous jestures versus matter of worth : Christopher Marlowe	p. 78
Kingly harp and iron pen in the playhouse : George Peele	p. 98
From hodge-podge to scene individable : John Lyly	p. 117
Henry V and the signs of power : William Shakespeare	p. 135
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre

Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in History & Criticism of Literature

Shakespeare and Disgust

The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion

Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens

Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon

Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden

(Re)Framing the Hortus

Creating Space for Shakespeare

Working with Marginalized Communities

African Ethics

A Guide to Key Ideas

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Race and Narrative Innovation

Documentary Theatre and Performance

Forms of Drama

Documentary Theatre and Performance

Forms of Drama

The Shoemakers' Holiday

Arden Early Modern Drama

Shakespeare and Comics

Negotiating Cultural Value

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Environmental Cultures

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?

A Primitivist Phenomenology

New Global Realism

Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

Freudians and Schadenfreudians

Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Children's Vegetarian Culture in the Victorian Era

The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change

Schindler's Ark

Winner of the 1982 Man Booker Prize

Ontological Terror

Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation

Cicero

Pro Marco Caelio

The Three Theban Plays

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

A Doll's House

Drama Classics

The Winter's Tale

New Cambridge Shakespeare

This product is categorised by

Popular Searches