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: --
If history is prologue, it will likely be female family members in the majority of cases that will care for sick loved ones.
The prologues are not related narratively to the previous episode's ending or the present storyline, however they underline each episode's theme.
The work is also valuable for being preceded by two prologues.
The voice-over prologues are discontinued mid-season and replaced with a short scene extracted from the episode-at-hand.
The story is told in two parts with two prologues.
His live action opening title sequences often served as prologues to their films and transitioned seamlessly into their opening scenes.
One familiar and traditional means of doing this was the prologue, from classical times a device for establishing direct interaction with the spectators.
Instead, as seen in the prologue and its 'lost' audience, the staging as well as the narrative is a site under question.
