## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <epilogue>

`<epilogue>` | contains the epilogue to a drama, typically spoken by an actor out of character, possibly in association with a particular performance or venue.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from dramafront

Example

    <epilogue>
      <head>Written by <name>Colley Cibber, Esq</name> and
        spoken by <name>Mrs. Cibber</name></head>
      <sp>
        <lg type="couplet">
          <l>Since Fate has robb'd me of the hapless Youth,</l>
          <l>For whom my heart had hoarded up its truth;</l>
        </lg>
        <lg type="couplet">
          <l>By all the Laws of Love and Honour, now,</l>
          <l>I'm free again to chuse, &mdash; and one of you</l>
        </lg>
        <!-- ... -->
        <lg type="triplet">
          <l>Suppose I search the sober Gallery; &mdash; No,</l>
          <l>There's none but Prentices &mdash; &amp; Cuckolds all a row:</l>
          <l>And these, I doubt, are those that make 'em so.</l>
        </lg>
        <stage type="business">Pointing to the Boxes.</stage>
        <lg type="couplet">
          <l>'Tis very well, enjoy the jest:</l>
          <!-- ... -->
        </lg>
      </sp>
    </epilogue>

Module | Declared in file teidram2; Base tag set for performance texts: enabled by TEI.drama
Class | dramafront
Data Description | Contains optional headings, a sequence of one or more component-level elements, and an optional sequence of closing material.

May contain

ab addSpan alt altGrp anchor argument bibl biblFull biblStruct byline camera caption castList cb certainty cit closer dateline delSpan docAuthor docDate eTree entry entryFree epigraph event fLib figure fs fsLib fvLib fw gap graph head index interp interpGrp join joinGrp kinesic l label lb lg lg1 lg2 lg3 lg4 lg5 link linkGrp list listBibl milestone move note opener p pause pb q quote respons salute shift signed sound sp span spanGrp stage superEntry table tech termEntry timeline trailer tree u view vocal witDetail witList writing

May occur within | back front

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT epilogue %om.RR; ((%m.divtop; | %m.Incl;)*,
                                ((%component;), (%m.Incl;)*)+,
                                ((%m.divbot;), (%m.Incl;)*)*)>
    <!ATTLIST epilogue
          %a.global;>

See further | 10.1.2 Prologues and Epilogues; 10.1 Front and Back Matter

Up: 35 Elements