On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems … 展开

Prologues of Renaissance drama often served a specific function of transition and clarification for the audience. A direct address made by one actor, the prologue acted as an appeal to the audience's attention and sy… 展开

Prologues have long been used in non-dramatic fiction, since at least the time of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, although Chaucer had prologues to many of the tales, rather than one at the front of the book. … 展开

• Epigraph
• Epilogue
• Foreword
• Interlude
• Introduction… 展开

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