All 5 Uses of
epilogue
in
As You Like It
- EPILOGUE ROSALIND.†
Scene 5.4epilogue = an afterward or concluding passage added at the end of a literary work
- It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue.†
Scene 5.4
- If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.†
Scene 5.4
- Yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.†
Scene 5.4 *epilogues = concluding passages
- What a case am I in, then, that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play!†
Scene 5.4epilogue = an afterward or concluding passage added at the end of a literary work
Definition:
a short section at the end of a book, play, or movie that provides additional information or wraps up the story
In a play, an epilogue can be a short speech addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the play's end.