Bøger af Diana Solomon

These poems, while not religious, explore our connection to the Divine energy of the cosmos, how the miraculous is present in the mundane, and the spiritual nature of dreams. The poems reflect on the relationship between body, spirit and the soul, and how intimately all three are connected in our search for enlightenment throughout our physical lives. The many facets of Love, and the connection of the temporary to the eternal, are common themes.

Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues players comic, poetic bids for the audiences good opinionbecame essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedyarguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.