M & D Group Read-related

[Mark Kohut]

Have learned elsewhere something about Shakespeare's
Elizabethan theater that might reflect on why M &B  seems
to have more Shakespeare allusions than P's others:

That developing genre openly accepted the fictional 'reality' of
different times and places...many plays moved from act to act
backward or forward in time and to different places.

Not breaking the theatrical 'fourth wall' was also honored by being
often breached. Soliloquies are internal self-presentations with
an audience more than half in mind AND there are soliloquies and
direct addresses TO the audience----Iago in Othello for example---
to make the plays work.

There are also 'omniscient-like' Prologues and Choruses all over
the place.(Did you remember that Romeo & Juliet has a prologue
that predicts the tragedy---sorta but not quite exactly and all of it?)

So, Becky's camera image re the narration of M & D is still true but
one can also imagine it as a huge Elizabethan play....a 'musical"?
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