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Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre Culverts and officeholders--as the dynamic whichThis 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 EnglandWhile its most basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the prologue's more