ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the play's burlesque, mock-epic and folly elements, recalling aspects of the law-revels tradition. 1
'What's past is prologue'
After the Prologue's epic opening, the periods suddenly stop: this grand expedition's purpose is but to retrieve the slumbering queen. Abruptly, four words arrest the forward action: 'and that's the quarrel' (I. 10).
