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The prologue does not have a social or moral purpose, it has a dramatic purpose which is to set the scene and give a rough sketch of the direction the play's headed in. It is relevant to the play whenever the play is performed. Dispensing with it would be like dispensing with the Chorus in Oedipus Rex or the Narrator in Our Town; they are part of the way the playwright chose to tell his story.

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