He wrote several Prologues and Epilogues for her, and would always hear her rehearse them in private, before she spoke them on the stage.
It is remarkable that his prologues and epilogues are all his own, though he sometimes supplied others; he afforded help, but did not solicit it.
The propriety of Epilogues in general, and consequently of this, was questioned by a correspondent of the Spectator, whose letter was undoubtedly admitted for the sake of the answer, which soon followed, written with much zeal and acrimony.
The Epiloguesto Cleomenes, Don Sebastian, The Duke of Guise, Aurengzebe, and Love Triumphant, are all Precedents of this Nature.
He is a very ingenious gentleman, and hath written some excellent Epilogues to Plays, and one small piece on Love, which is very pretty.
On account of these considerations, I have bracketed in my translation such part of the epilogues as seemed to me later interpolations.
But, as a rule[20], the epilogues are not limited to that simple repetition.
The third edition also omits the originalepilogues at the theatre and at court, which, as they are worth preserving, are now inserted in a note.
But since that epilogues are so much in vogue, Take this as prologue to the epilogue.
Prologues and Epilogues always appealed more to the public at large as the highest judge; its verdict alone was held to be the decisive one.
Theatre, prologues and epilogues sold at the door of the, x, 316 of Drury-Lane burnt, ib.
The following Prefaces and Epilogues from Caxton's own pen show his attitude towards some of the more important of the works that issued from his press.
Authors who were on friendly terms with the actors, or had reason to be grateful to them, frequently gave them short pieces or wrote special epilogues for their benefits.
The final couplets of a French vaudeville, it may be noted, usually contained an appeal of this kind; otherwise, tags, and epilogues are alike eschewed upon the French stage.
It is difficult to conceive now that certain of the prologues and epilogues of Dryden and his contemporaries could ever have been delivered, at any time, upon any stage.
But although protests were now and then, as in the case of "The Distressed Mother," raised against the absurdity of the custom, comic epilogues to tragic plays long remained in favour with the patrons of the stage.
For some years before their extinction, epilogues had greatly declined in worth, although their loss of public favour was less apparent.
It is to be noted that but few of Shakespeare's prologues and epilogues have been preserved.
It was in order, no doubt, the more to conciliate the audience that epilogues assumed, oftentimes, a playfulness of tone that would scarcely have been tolerated in the case of prologues.
In the non-operatic theatres it is probable that calls first came in vogue when epilogues went out.
Dryden in his prologues and epilogues often addresses the pit, as containing notably the judges of plays and the more learned of the audience.
The prologues and epilogues of Dryden are often brilliantly finished exercises in literary polemic.
These Restoration epilogues were often very elaborate essays or satires, and were by no means confined to the subject of the preceding play.
In France the custom of reciting dramatic epilogues has never prevailed.
Not always, however, are prologues, or epilogues short.
True it is that most prologues and epilogues are short, but that is not their distinguishing characteristic.
Prologues and epilogues were often prepared, not by the author of the play, but by some other person; and this was probably the case with some of the prologues and epilogues in S.
His ingenious prologues and epilogues also serve to illustrate the range and versatility of his talent.
Thus the Prologues and Epilogues form no improper supplement to Dryden's historical poetry.
The more miscellaneous prologues and epilogues of Dryden are not without interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epilogues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
