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Dr Faustus The reason for a Prologue is to give the audience background information about Faustus' life and education and set the mood, as well as prepare the audience for what they are about to see. In this play, the Chorus, a single actor, introduces the plot of the play and starts by stating what it will not be about. He says that it will involve neither love nor war, but instead will trace the "form of Faustus' fortunes". The Chorus goes on to explicitly tell how his swelling pride will lead to his downfall. In my own production's staging of it I intend to inform, as well as prompt, a reaction from the audience and indicate how their reaction should be by the way my Chorus delivers his lines. It will be a fairly young man in his late twenties. He will wear ordinary 21^st century clothes (a...

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