Shakespeare's Hamlet begins:
Act I
Scene 1
Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
Francisco at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
After that, the dialogue starts.
Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest begins not with a date but with a scene:
i
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. A HEATH ABOUT TO BE BLASTED.
-Poul Anderson, A Midsummer Tempest (London, 1975), p. 1.
After that, comes not dramatic dialogue but prose narrative.
A Midsummer Tempest is a sequel to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest so blog readers might like to google the beginnings of those two plays?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
A heath blasted by the civil war between Englishmen, Royalists and Puritans.
Ad astra! Sean
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