Interlude

Short Note- Interlude

 

An interlude is a literary device used by authors to provide comic relief to the audience from an overpowering tragic or gloomy mood created by highly tragic scenes. Interlude was performed at court or at “great house” by professional minstrels or amateurs at intervals between some other entertainment, such as a banquet, or preceding or following

a play, or between acts. Although most interludes were sketches of a non-religious nature, some plays were called interludes that are today classed as morality plays. John Heywood, one of the most famous interlude writers, brought the genre to perfection in his “The Playe called the Foure P.P.