THE EPILOGUE AS DISCLOSURE IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S AS YOU LIKE IT AND THE TEMPEST

Resumo

This paper follows recent revaluations of Shakespeare’s oeuvre and purports to examine it from the marginal standpoint of the epilogue. The epilogues selected are the ones to As You Like It and The Tempest; I argue that these texts perform different kinds of disclosure, which do not merely reveal the plays’ fictionality but maintain the audience under the spell of fiction while urging them to act according to the theatrical protocol. To support such argument, I draw from areas such as genre theory, Greenblattian new historicism, and literary anthropology. The readings and discussions proposed offer the opportunity to see Shakespeare’s theatre as intimately connected to its audience and context, and not as the product of a disembodied genius.

Palavras-chave: Shakespeare. Epilogue. Disclosure.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18305/1679-5520/scripta.uniandrade.v13n2p81-92