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Shibdeep Kaur Sekhon 21st January 2003 Write a detailed analysis of the prologue and how it introduces us to the themes of the play. The play "Dr. Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe begins with a prologue in which a chorus communicates directly to the audience about the action of the play they are about to observe. A chorus is very different to the customary dialogue of the play. The fact that the chorus addresses the audience directly, it attracts the audience's attention. It begins by telling us, the audience, what the play is not about. "Not marching now in the fields of Thrasimene, / ... / In courts of kings where state is overturned ..." As the prologue begins with a list of what the play is not about, it clears many of the standard ideas out of the audience's mind, in this case, war, romance, and politics. However that fact that he tells us...

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