Homer's Paradise Lost

The opening to a shakespeare play will begin with two people who aren't frequently the main characters in conversation typically we'll see the conversation of someone of lowly status. i think that that works to bridge the gap between reality lived day-to-day experience outside the theater and the world of imagination in the theater because that person who opens the play is essentially audience surrogate in effect. I like the opening to donkey hotte to spanish speakers tell me that it's very iconic in the original somewhere in lamancha  in a place whose name i do not care to remember one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a gentleman living not long ago.