Narration

Today in this blog post, I feel like discussing the arguments concurring with the importance of narration in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. The first argument I would like to discuss is the argument I accidentally stumbled upon in class today: narration adds a legendary quality that adds to the epic personality of the play itself. The narration adds to the play's granduer because the nature of narration intrinsically implies oral tradition, i.e., the story was passed down via word of mouth through generation after generation etc. Something absolutely incredible must have happened for people to keep orally passing this story down every generation, right? When one wanted to catch the awe of others, he would revert to an epic journey such as Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 
Secondly, narration is important in a play such as Pericles, Prince of Tyre because the narrators provide background information so that the audience understands the context of the play and why certain characters might make the decisions that they do. The narrator can also fill in gaps in the story that are not in the play so that the audience can further understand the context of the next scene or so. Additionally, I think that the audience may be able to better understand what a narrator says in comparison to the other characters. The emotion (like anger) an actor may be portraying would distract the audience from giving their full attention to the words the actor is saying; however, a narrator is usually unmoving or not physically dynamic but instead verbally dynamic, allowing the audience to further concentrate on the words they are hearing.