Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces

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Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces is written by Daniel James Ennis and published by University of Delaware Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874139678 (ISBN 10) and 9780874139679 (ISBN 13).

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.