There is actually a timeline for play that showing when do events happen.
By understanding writers or playwrights' purpose and format of the prologue, prologue can be easily analyzed.
Quotes from "Analysis of the "Romeo & Juliet" Prologue Sonnet": the denotation of each word and how the words create the meaning of the piece as a whole."
Prologue establishes the setting of the play.
"Romeo and Juliet” is a sonnet, which is written in 14 lines, and the format will be ABABCDCDEFEFGG.(The last pronunciation of the syllable will be same.
In Shakespeare's sonnet, usually first the first quatrain gives introductory information. The second elaborates the details on the first quatrain. The third introduces conflicts,shifts in tone or setting and the rhyming couplet.
An important step for analyzing Shakespeare's work is to understand denotation of Shakespeare's diction.
The prologue is also used as a foreshadowing to talk about the ending.
Play has to be versatile.
Before, there are only males in the play. They act both women and men.
The Theater which was the first established in England had a multi-sided structure and an uncovered "yard".
Spectators could pay for seating at multiple price levels
The Globe(opened in 1599), was later on established.
Indoor theaters can operate year-round, out of the sun, wind, and rain.
In Shakespeare's day, a penny to stand in the uncovered yard of a playhouse, or two pennies for a balcony seat.
Spectators liked to have snacks and drinks when they were watching a play.
Some comic character might be played by a popular adult comic actor or clown.
Actors usually did not aim for historically accurate costumes; they typically wore modern dress.
Costumes are a major investment of the play.
The bare stages of Shakespeare's day had little or no scenery.
Quotes from Shakespeare's Theater: But they included some vertical options: actors could descend from the "heavens" above the stage or enter and exit from the "hell" below through a trapdoor.
Beginning in the late 1800s, Shakespeare's plays inspired the creation of a wealth of replica Elizabethan theaters.
Some Shakespeare's works are interpreted on films.
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