Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Author: Diana Solomon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1611494222

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This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces
Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces

Author: Daniel James Ennis

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780874139679

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Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to playhouse audiences from the Restoration to the early nineteenth century. The contributing scholars focus not on the mainpiece, the advertised play itself, but on what surrounded the mainpiece for the total theater experience of the day. Various critical essays address artistic disciplines such as dance and theatrical portraits, while others concentrate on peripheral performance texts, including prologues, epilogues, pantomimes, and afterpieces, that merged to define the overall theatrical event.