... Shakespeare wrote this play (1600-1700) sonnets were a very popular form of poetry so people would have wanted to come and see his play. Just as the 1997 film "Romeo and Juliet" uses a news bulletin to present the prologue because modern audiences are used to information being interpreted this way, Shakespeare used a sonnet because his audience would be used to these. There is a stage direction ... just before the prologue begins, it reads "Enter Chorus." The job of the chorus was not to act but to go onto the stage and read out ... is repeated four times, this alliteration makes the l...

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