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"What's past is prologue" is a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present.
Terry Cook was instrumental in the development of archival theory at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. His scholarship covered archival appraisal, theories of the archive, total archives, postmodernism, community archives, the fonds and series systems of arrangement and description, the contrast between analogue and digital thinking and relations between archivists and ...
Past Is Prologue may refer to: "What's past is prologue", a quotation from the 1611 play The Tempest by William Shakespeare "Past Is Prologue" , a 2013 episode of the American science fiction series Defiance; Past Is Prologue, a 2004 album by American ambient music project Tycho
The epigraph may serve as a preface to the work; as a summary; as a counter-example; or as a link from the work to a wider literary canon, [2] with the purpose of either inviting comparison or enlisting a conventional context. [3] A book may have an overall epigraph that is part of the front matter, or one for each chapter.
May 17—In 1992, the #MeToo movement was 25 years from holding powerful figures accountable, and "sexual harassment" was not the household term it is today. That year, David Mamet's play Oleanna ...
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος prólogos, from πρό pró, "before" and λόγος lógos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.
The opposite is a prologue—a piece of writing at the beginning of a work of literature or drama, usually used to open the story and capture interest. [2] Some genres, for example television programs and video games, call the epilogue an "outro" patterned on the use of "intro" for "introduction".
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