" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

a prologue to one of his plays, Terence meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people.

Upon first publication, The Eye of the World consisted of one prologue and 53 chapters, with an additional prologue authored upon re-release.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

German author Wolfgang Hohlbein revisited the 1912 prologue in one of his novels, in which Indiana encounters the lead grave robber — whom Hohlbein christens Jake — in 1943.

In the prologue to the second book of the Commentaries is found one of the best examples of a Mappae Mundi of the high medieval culture.

In the prologue, Ashley is blamed for murdering the duke, and the game discloses the events that happen one week before the murder.

The opening words of the Philobiblon and the Epistolae as given by Bale represent those of the Philobiblon and its prologue, of that he apparently made two books out of one treatise.

In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G. K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends.

Such was Ramón ’ s insistence on constant novelty that when he published his own survey of the period ’ s Ismos in 1931, its prologue was one of the most notable defences of artistic autonomy and verbal freedom at a time when the avant-garde and surrealism were giving way to socio-political commitment.

They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale.

It is accomplished by one of a small number of instructions ( prologue ) and ends with one of a similarly small set ( epilogue ).

Magli sang the prologue, Proserpina and possibly one other role, either La messaggera or Speranza.

The tragedy usually begins with a prologue ( from pro and logos, speech preliminary ), in which one or more characters introduce the drama and explain the background, followed by the parodos ( ἡ πάροδος ), which is a part of Chorus made while it enters through the side corridors, the parodos, the real stage action then unfolds through three or more episodes ( epeisòdia ), interspersed by stasimi, the interludes in which the chorus says or explains the situation that is developing on the scene ( or, more rarely, performs actions ); the tragedy ends with the Exodus ( ἔξοδος ), which shows the dissolution of the story.

Thomas famously says in the prologue to the Summa contra Gentiles that in debating Christian heretics one can make recourse to the entire Bible to show them their error.

The prologue, for example, is thought to have been one of the last things written.

Unlike the first game, in which Baldur's Gate was a location that was only featured during one act, the city of Baldur's Gate appears in all but the prologue act ( which is set on the Trade Way leading to the city ).

Just as the quote at the beginning of the novel states, “ What is past is prologue .” Smith uses the characters and their various cultural backgrounds to show the complexity involved in immigration and replanting one ’ s roots.

For a long time Jean was only known as a chronicler through a reference by Jean Froissart, who quotes him in the prologue of his first book as one of his authorities.

The one thing that is usually accepted is that it was written no earlier than 797, when one of the rulers described in the prologue as having deceased, Donnchad mac Domnaill, king of Tara, died.

Die Landstreicher (" The Tramps ") is an operetta in one prologue and two acts by Karl Michael Ziehrer ( libretto by Leopold Krenn and Carl Lindau ).

A manuscript of the romance in the city of Turin contains a prologue to the story of Huon de Bordeaux in the shape of a separate romance of Auberon, and four sequels, and there are later French versions as well.

The oldest now surviving manuscript ( Harley 3859 ) from c. 1100, used as the base text in Stevenson's, Mommsen's, and Morris's editions, lacks Nennius's prologue.

* Roman d ' Aubéron-the Turin manuscript of the romance ( the only manuscript to contain all of the continuations ) contains the only version of this 14th-century prologue in the shape of a separate romance of Auberon.

An elaborate frame story presented in the prologue to the Latin text details how the manuscript of this work, written in Phoenician characters on tablets of limewood or tree bark, survived: it was said to have been enclosed in a leaden box and buried with its author, according to his wishes.

The original manuscript for The Book of Merlyn was discovered amongst this collection, and was prepared for publication by the University of Texas Press in 1977, as The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King, with prologue by Sylvia Townsend Warner and illustrations by Trevor Stubley.

The Harley 978 manuscript also includes a 56-line prologue in which Marie describes the impetus for her composition of the lais.

It appears in its own manuscript fragment, Group H, but the prologue to the Parson's Tale makes it clear it was intended as the penultimate story in the collection.

There are two special editions of this book in the UK, one with " a unique cover " from WH Smith's, the other with a manuscript for a possible prologue and several other notes on the story of Lirael, available from Waterstone's.

Chaucer seems to have returned to the work a decade later to rewrite the prologue, but the latter text, which survives in only one manuscript, is generally considered inferior to the original.

He has traditionally been attributed with the authorship of the Historia Brittonum, based on the prologue affixed to that work, This attribution is widely considered a secondary ( 10th century ) tradition.

In the prologue to his classic account of the New Deal, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. suggests Felix Frankfurter and his colleagues were the source for the 1933 Banking Act ( along with the Securities Act of 1933 ) in the tradition of “ trust-busting liberalism .” In his later brief description of the 1933 Banking Act, however, Schlesinger does not mention Frankfurter and focuses on the role of the Pecora Investigation and opposition to deposit insurance, including from Roosevelt, in the debate over the legislation.

In the classical tradition, the prologue conformed to one of four sub-genres: the sustatikos, which recommends either the play or the poet ; the epitimetikos, in which a curse is given against a rival, or thanks given to the audience ; dramatikos, in which the plot of the play is explained ; and mixtos, which contains all of these things.

Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

This prologue is intended to identify Jesus as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God.

In his prologue or proem he describes two views of existence ; initially that nothing comes from nothing, and therefore existence is eternal.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

The replacement character that acts as the chorus would in Greek drama is often called the “ prologue .”

The specific type of monologue ( or soliloquy ) in which a Plautine slave engages is the prologue.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

In the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, shitten is used as the past participle ; however this form is very rare in modern English.

Prince Igor (, Knyaz ' Igor ' ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue.