All 6 Uses
prologue
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- And even the like precurse of feared events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and Earth together demonstrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.†p. 15.9 - [Enter Prologue.†
p. 145.7
- PROLOGUE.†
p. 145.9 *
- Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?†
p. 147.1
- To my sick soul (as sin's true nature is),
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.†p. 205.9 - Being thus benetted round with villainies,
Or I could make a prologue to my brains,
They had begun the play.†p. 261.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(prologue) an introduction to a fictional work; or anything that precedes a more important event
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Rarely, prologue can be used in other senses. For example, in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Prologue is the name of a character who delivers a prologue in a play within the play.