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A prologue (Greek πρόλογος prologos, from the word pro (before) and lógos, word) is an opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Greek prologos included the modern meaning of prologue, but was of wider significance. Preface, like the Latin praefatio. In a book, the prologue is a part of the front matter which is in the on the facts related in the prologue. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded.
It is believed that the prologue in this form was practically the invention of Euripides, and with him, as has been said, it takes the place of an explanatory first act. This may help to modify the objection which criticism has often brought against the Greek prologue, as an impertinence, a useless growth prefixed to the play, and standing as a barrier between us and our enjoyment of it. The point precisely is that, to an Athenian audience, it was useful and pertinent, as supplying just what they needed to make the succeeding scenes intelligible. But it is difficult to accept the view that Euripides invented the plan of producing a god out of a machine to justify the action of deity upon man, because it is plain that he himself disliked this interference of the supernatural and did not believe in it. He seems, in such a typical prologue as that to the Hippolytus, to be accepting a conventional formula, and employing it, almost perversely, as a medium for his ironic rationalismo.
Actors: Henry James (writer), Marcel Miller (actor), François Duplat (producer), Luc Bondy (miscellaneous crew), Moidele Bickel (costume designer), Vincent Bataillon (director), Marie McLaughlin (actress), Myfanwy Piper (writer), Mireille Delunsch (actress), Daniel Harding (actor), Patrick Bouquet (editor), Hanna Schaer (actress), Olivier Dumait (actor), Nazan Fikret (actress), Gregory Monk (actor),
Genres: Horror, Music,Actors: Henry James (writer), Myfanwy Piper (writer), Neil Armfield (miscellaneous crew), Anson Austin (actor), Robert Gard (actor), Greg Shears (director), Margaret Haggart (actress), Eilene Hannan (actress), Patrick Littlemore (actor), Stephen Curtis (costume designer), David Stanhope (actor), Wendy Dixon (actress), Lanneke Jones (actress), The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (actor),
Genres: Horror, Music,Actors: Henry James (writer), Michael Hampe (miscellaneous crew), Claus Viller (director), Myfanwy Piper (writer), Richard Greager (actor), Richard Greager (actor), Menai Davies (actress), Phyllis Cannan (actress), Machiko Obata (actress), Constanze Völz (editor), Sam Linay (actor), Chiara Donato (costume designer), Helen Field (actress),
Genres: Horror, Music, Thriller,Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Timothy West (actor), Charles Lloyd Pack (actor), Claire Bloom (actress), William Shakespeare (writer), Ronald Pickup (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Michael Gaunt (actor), Julian Glover (actor), Jeremy Kemp (actor), John Cater (actor), Jack May (actor), Oliver Cotton (actor), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: ,Actors: Nick Brimble (actor), Bob Hoskins (actor), Freddie Jones (actor), Nick Brimble (actor), Nick Brimble (actor), Freddie Jones (actor), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Bob Hoskins (actor), Ann Beach (actress), Ann Beach (actress), Ann Beach (actress), Barry Stanton (actor), Barry Stanton (actor), Barry Stanton (actor), Emrys James (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Meryl Streep (actress), John Randolph (actor), Faith Hubley (writer), John Hubley (producer), John Hubley (writer), Lane Smith (actor), Faith Hubley (producer), Juanita Moore (actress), John Hubley (director), Lawrence Pressman (actor), Jack Gilford (actor), Lou Jacobi (actor), Emily Hubley (miscellaneous crew), Emily Hubley (actress), Dinah Manoff (actress),
Genres: Animation,Actors: Philip Saville (director), Michael Caine (actor), Charles Carson (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Robert Shaw (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Richard Rodney Bennett (composer), Steven Berkoff (actor), William Hobbs (actor), Philip Locke (actor), Bill Wallis (actor), David Calderisi (actor), David Swift (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lorin Raker (actor), Eddie Gribbon (actor), Archie Marshek (editor), Walter Long (actor), Fred Myton (writer), Jack Pickford (actor), Randolph Bartlett (writer), Olive Borden (actress), Edgar Allan Woolf (writer), James Ashmore Creelman (writer), Mabel Albertson (actress), Bert Glennon (director), Frank Chew (actor), Jack McKee (actor), David Hartman (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Eric Mayne (actor), Chester Barnett (actor), Barbara Tennant (actress), Lindsay J. Hall (actor), Nellie Slattery (actress), Lillian Cook (actress), Winthrop Kelley (director), Charles Hartley (actor), J. Ernest Williamson (writer), Fred Radcliffe (actor), George M. Williamson (producer), M.L. Lake (composer), Edward Butler (actor), Edith Conway (actress), E. Hudson (actor),
Plot: A poor but brilliant inventor sets out to make his fortune by discovering buried treasure, with the aid of a special inverted periscope through which he can view the ocean floor.
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Hobart Bosworth (actor), Frank Clark (actor), Iva Shepard (actress), William Nicholas Selig (producer), Hobart Bosworth (director), Fred Huntley (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Frank Richardson (actor), Eugenie Besserer (actress), Anna Dodge (actress), Betty Harte (actress), Elaine Davis (actress), Frank Garcia (actor), Jeanne Pardee (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short, Western,Tucked in the woods
Near North Chicago
Early November
Commences our saga
Two loved in silence
For fear of corruption
Then fate chimed in
With an evil grin and a mighty interruption
She awoke in a panic
The TV in static
She heard a voice
In the attic
Crouched behind her door
With a Swiss Army knife
She cried in silence
Fearing for her life
Protecting herself
She stabbed the intruder
The lights turned on
Her knife impaled her suitor
She'd committed a murder
While he laid there bleeding
She stared, clearly scared
Checked her boyfriend's heart for beating
It's not right
The lights get dim
And all she thinks of is him
She cried through the morning
As she read the paper
Her father told police
The boy broke in to rape her
She ran to the bathroom
Enraged and pissed
Grabbed a razor
And tic-tac-toed her wrist
She'd committed a murder
And while she laid there bleeding
She stared, clearly scared
Checked her final pulse for beating
It's not right
The lights get dim