0 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
1 a part at the beginning of esp. a play, story, or long poem that introduces it:
Which brings us, by way of a necessary prologue, to the present task.
The rubric explicit prologus at the head of p. 287 suggests that the prologue once existed.
Figure 4 uses the implementation prologue property to insert definitions of these functions into the generated code.
The prologue is always presented as an informal chat, and is not delivered as a scripted piece.
In addition to a prologue and an epilogue, there were fifty scenes taking place in four different countries with over 180 performers.
The ritornello is repeated in shortened form between each of the prologue's five verses, and in full after the final verse.
Several possible prologues can be written, resulting in slightly different stack configuration.
Instead, as seen in the prologue and its 'lost' audience, the staging as well as the narrative is a site under question.
