He would never miss an opportunity, in the prologues or epilogues to these programs, to discourse upon the importance of being frightened, of having your spine tingled. |
He was a friend of Dryden, for several of whose plays he wrote prologues and epilogues. |
The story in the prologues lengthens with time, with more details in the later versions of the prologue. |
If you haven't read the prologues yet this won't make any sense. |
The prologues of all other manuscripts, though only included marginally, so closely resemble this first prologue that William Newell claims they must be copies. |
As you can see, it goes straight to the point without any prologues or any kind of introduction. |