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The prologue removed his hat and wore no makeup. He may have carried a book, scroll, or placard displaying the title of the play. [1]: 24 He was introduced by three short trumpet calls, on the third of which he entered and took a position downstage. He made three bows in the current fashion of the court, and then addressed the audience.
Fanchon and Marco began producing prologues, initially at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, in 1922, and by 1931 produced about fifty hour-long productions each year with a staff of six thousand; they ceased their production in 1936. [5]
Art of the Title. – A compendium and leading web resource of film and television title design from around the world, including interviews and behind-the-scenes materials. "Forget the Film, Watch the Titles". Watch the Titles. – A collection of title sequences and interviews with designers. "Greatest TV opening credits of all time".
The opening sequence to the 2009 Disney-Pixar film Up (sometimes referred to as "Married Life" after the accompanying instrumental piece, [1] the Up montage, or including the rest of the prologue The First 10 Minutes of Up) has become known as a cultural milestone and a key element to the film's success.
The prologues provide background on the traditional authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and their theological purposes. [1] [2] Since Luke and John were also credited with the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation, respectively, information contained in their prologues was eventually spun out into separate prologues to Acts and ...
The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.
The story is her perspective of the past events within the novel and Offred titles her publication the eponym, ‘The Handmaid's Tale.’ In George Orwell 's Animal Farm , the epilogue is used to satisfy the curiosity of the readers by revealing a utopic ending to the characters in the Manor Farm many years after the revolution.
Tyr (Tyrwhitt's Fragments) – Thomas Tyrwhitt, editor of the first modern edition of The Canterbury Tales (1775–78) [3] accepted the order of the Ellesmere manuscript, and furthermore determined – primarily based on linkages in the Tales' Prologues – which tales were "inseparably linked" to each other; this resulted in his postulating 10 ...