The aim of this BA Thesis is to analyse and compare Shakespeare’s prologues according to their formal features (narrative strategies, Chorus persona, distribution in the play) and their position and function in the individual plays. The introductory chapter will briefly comment on the use of the chorus in Elizabethan drama, providing the context for subsequent specific analysis of Shakespeare’s plays. The play which most extensively and consistently employs a Chorus figure, The Life of King Henry V, will provide a basis for categorising and explaining the above characteristics. The resulting “template” will then be compared with other Shakespeare’s prologues from all the genres of his plays. The other compared plays are The Life of King Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida and Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
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