ABSTRACT

Hmmm... I believe that this event only echoed what happened when the play of Romeo

and Juliet was first presented: that the audience enjoys the play more if they are not told at the beginning that it will end in death. They can still hope and believe that all might turn out well in the end. And this theatrical analysis leads to the thought

that the Folio version of the plays is what they finally found themselves presenting in the theatre of the time, the version that in fact played best. In other words, the omission of the Prologue is what the original company found made the play work best.