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Prologue (Greek πρόλογος prologos, from προ~, pro~ - fore~, and lógos, word), or prolog, is a prefatory piece of writing, usually composed to introduce a drama. Book design is the art of incorporating the content style, format, Design, and sequence of the various components of a Book into a coherent Page layout is the part of Graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content on a page Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, Type design, and modifying type Glyphs Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety A book cover is a protective covering used to bind together the pages of a Book. The endpapers of a Book are the leaves of paper before the title page and after the text Half title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a Book, as opposed to the title page which also lists Subtitle, author publisher and similar data A frontispiece is an elaborate decorative Illustration that appears facing the Title page of the book The title page or (which is no longer synonymous with frontispiece in modern usage of a Book, Thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front The page containing information about the current edition, usually on the back of the title page A table of contents usually headed simply "Contents" is a list of the parts of a book or Document (including Acts of Parliaments) organized in the order A foreword is a (usually short piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of Literature, before the introduction, and written by someone In the creative arts and Scientific literature, an acknowledgment (also spelled acknowledgement) is an expression of gratitude for assistance in creating In an Essay, article, or Book, an introduction (also known as a prolegomenon) is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length such as a Book. This article is about the literary epilogue See Epilogue (disambiguation for other uses of "Epilogue" or "Epilog" An outro (sometimes "outtro" or extro is the Conclusion to a piece of music literature or television program An afterword is a Literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of Literature. A conclusion is a Proposition, which is arrived at after the consideration of Evidence, Arguments or Premises Logic PostScript ( PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative Programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982 In the plural both the Latin addenda and the English adaptation addendums are acceptable See also List of glossaries A glossary is a list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms Bibliography (from Greek grc βιβλιογραφία bibliographia, literally "book writing" as a practice is the academic study of Books An index is a list of words or phrases ('headings' and associated pointers ('locators' to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document A colophon in publishing can refer to A brief description usually located at the end of a book describing production notes relevant to the edition A printer's Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly The Greek prologos included the modern meaning of prologue, but was of wider significance, embracing any kind of preface, like the Latin praefatio. The prologue is usually in the beginning of a book.

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In Attic Greek drama, a character in the play, very often a deity, stood forward or appeared from a machine before the action of the play began, and made from the empty stage such statements necessary for the audience to hear so that they might appreciate the ensuing drama. Attic Greek is the Prestige dialect of Ancient Greece that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. See also List of deities A deity is a Postulated Preternatural or Supernatural Being, who is always It was the early Greek custom to dilate in great detail on everything that had led up to the play, the latter being itself, as a rule merely the catastrophe which had inevitably to ensue on the facts related in the prologue. 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. Euripides ( Ancient Greek:) (ca 480 BC–406 BC was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus 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, to an Athenian audience, it was useful and pertinent, as supplying just what they needed to make the succeeding scenes intelligible. But it is difficult to accept the view that Euripides invented the plan of producing a god out of a machine to justify the action of deity upon man, because it is plain that he himself disliked this interference of the supernatural and did not believe in it. He seems, in such a typical prologue as that to the Hippolytus, to be accepting a conventional formula, and employing it, almost perversely, as a medium for his ironic rationalism. Hippolytus (Ιππόλυτος / Hippolytos) is an Ancient Greek Tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus

Many of the existing Greek prologues may be later in date than the plays they illustrate, or may contain large interpolations. On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems which Plautus prefixes to his plays we see what importance he gave to this portion of the entertainment; sometimes, as in the preface to the Rudens, Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prologues, usually placed in the mouths of persons who make no appearance in the play itself. Titus Maccius Plautus (c 254–184 BCE commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman Playwright. Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus, thought to have been written around 211 BC

Molière revived the Plautian prologue in the introduction to his Amphitryon. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his Stage name, Molière, ( January 15, 1622 – February 17 1673) was a French Amphitryon, or Amphitrion, in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. Racine introduced Piety as the speaker of a prologue which opened his choral tragedy of Esther. Jean Racine ( ( December 22, 1639 &ndash April 21, 1699) was a French Dramatist, one of the "big three" of Esther ( born Hadassah, is a queen of Persian Empire in the Hebrew Bible, the queen of Ahasuerus (traditionally identified with Artaxerxes

The tradition of the ancients vividly affected our own early dramatists. Not only were the mystery plays and miracles of the Middle Ages begun by a homily, but when the drama in its modern sense was inaugurated in the reign of Elizabeth, the prologue came with it, directly adapted from the practice of Euripides and Terence. Mystery plays and Miracle plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in Medieval Europe. A homily is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture In the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and in the Eastern Orthodox Church Publius Terentius Afer (195/185&ndash159 BC better known as Terence, was a Playwright of the Roman Republic. Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, prepared a sort of prologue in dumb show for his Gorboduc of 1562; and he also wrote a famous Induction, which is, practically, a prologue, to a miscellany of short romantic epics by diverse hands. Sir Thomas Sackville 1st Earl of Dorset (1536 &ndash April 19, 1608) was an English Statesman and poet son of Richard Sackville Gorboduc, also titled Ferrex and Porrex, was an English play from 1561. An Induction in a play is an explanatory scene or other intrusion that stands outside and apart from the main action with the intent to comment on it moralize about it ANThology is the first Major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19

Elizabethan Period

In the Elizabethan drama the prologue was very far from being universally employed. In the plays of William Shakespeare, for instance, it is an artifice which the poet very rarely introduced, although we find it in Henry V and Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare ( baptised Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the Sometimes the Elizabethan prologue was a highly elaborated poem; in 1603 a harbinger recited a sonnet on the stage, to prepare the audience for Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness. A harbinger is a sign of things to come Throughout History and Literature, harbingers and Omens figure prominently and are responsible for major decisions Thomas Heywood (early 1570s&mdash 16 August[[ 641]] was a prominent English playwright actor and miscellaneous author whose peak period of activity falls between A Woman Killed with Kindness is an early seventeenth-century stage play a Tragedy written by Thomas Heywood. Often the prologue was a piece of blank verse, so obscure and complicated that it is difficult to know how its hearers contrived to follow it; such are the prologues of George Chapman. Blank verse is a type of Poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no Rhyme. George Chapman (c 1559 &ndash May 12 1634) was an English Dramatist, Translator, and Poet.

Among Elizabethan prologues the most ingenious and interesting are those of Ben Jonson, who varied the form on every occasion. Benjamin Jonson ( c 11 June 1572 &ndash 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance Dramatist For instance, in The Poetaster (1602), Envy comes in as Prologue, and speaks a long copy of heroics, only to be turned off the stage by an armed figure, who states that he is the real prologue, and proceeds to spout more verses. Jonson's introductions were often recited by the stage-keeper, or manager. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher seem to have almost wholly dispensed with prologues, and the form was far from being universal, until the Restoration, when it became de rigueur. Francis Beaumont (1584 &ndash March 6 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John John Fletcher (1579 &ndash 1625 was a Jacobean Playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored

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prologue

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  1. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
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