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Definitions of prologue in various dictionaries:
noun - an introduction to a play
An introduction or a preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play.
An introduction or introductory chapter, as to a novel.
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| Shakespeare wrote, "What's past is" this introductory part of a book |
| An introductory part in a novel |
| It can be an introductory scene of a play or an introductory verse of a poem |
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| an introduction to a play |
| a separate introductory section of a literary, dramatic, or musical work. |
| an event or act that leads to another. |
| An introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play. |
| An introduction or introductory chapter, as to a novel. |
| An introductory act, event, or period. |
| a part that comes at the beginning of a play, story, or long poem, often giving information about events that happened before the time when the play, story, or poem begins |
| a series of events that happen before the main event and are related to it: |
| a part at the beginning of esp. a play, story, or long poem that introduces it: |
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A prologue or prolog (from Greek prologos, from pro, "before" and logos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Ancient Greek prólogos included the modern meaning of prologue, but was of wider significance, more like the meaning of preface. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded. * It is believed that the prologue in this form was practically the invention of Euripides, and with him, as has been said, it takes the place of an explanatory first act. This may help to modify the objection which criticism has often brought against the Greek prologue, as an impertinence, a useless growth prefixed to the play, and standing as a barrier between us and our enjoyment of it. The point precisely is that, t |