In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.

François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

In 1748, Alexander Sumarokov wrote a Russian adaptation that focused on Prince Hamlet as the embodiment of an opposition to Claudius's tyranny — a treatment that would recur in Eastern European versions into the 20th century.

Barrie's Marie Rose contains references to Harris inspired by a holiday visit to Amhuinnsuidhe Castle and he wrote a screenplay for the 1924 film adaptation of Peter Pan whilst on Eilean Shona.

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

Baum wrote a sequel, The Woggle-Bug, but since Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running, the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were omitted from this adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before it could reach Broadway.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

John Alan Simon wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

During the second half of 2011, Gilliam wrote a screenplay, co-authored by Paul Auster, for a film adaptation of Auster's novel Mr. Vertigo.

In 1995, he wrote the book for the stage musical adaptation of Victor / Victoria, also starring Andrews.

He also wrote the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as Sly Fox and a musical adaptation of the Preston Sturges movie Hail the Conquering Hero ; during that show's troubled development Gelbart uttered the now-classic line, " If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval wrote an adaptation of Manon Lescaut in form of verse drama.

Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then ( in Italian ) in Naples in 1826.

W. S. Gilbert wrote a burlesque adaptation of the opera, La Vivandière, in 1867.

Nearer the end of the century, Henry Brooke wrote an adaptation which was apparently never staged.

Straczynski also wrote for CBS Storybreak, writing an adaptation of Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek ).

However, in October 2010, Bear commented on his website that Ken Nolan ( who wrote the screen adaptation for Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down film ), was actively working on a screenplay.

With Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis, he wrote the screenplay for his first film as director: Ossessione ( Obsession, 1943 ), the first neorealist movie and an unofficial adaptation of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

Beaumont wrote many scripts for the Twilight Zone, including an adaptation of his own short story, " The Howling Man ", starring John Carradine, and the hour-long " The Valley of the Shadow ," in which a newspaper reporter stumbles upon a cloistered technological Utopia, disguised as an ordinary small town in the middle of nowhere, which refuses to allow its startlingly-advanced science discoveries to be given to the outside world, citing humanity's previous misuse of another scientific formula E = mc2 as their cautious rationale.

In Hamburg, the group performed and wrote the music for an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, which was eventually released in 1989 as Macbeth.

Of the adaptation he wrote " it represents an attempt to render Shakespeare's early chaotic work fit for the German stage without having the Shakespearean atrocities and grotesqueries passed over in silence.

Editor's note: Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote, on page 50 of SR Research for 4 March 1961::

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Authors whose usage predates Steiner's include occultist Agrippa von Nettesheim, alchemist Thomas Vaughn ( Anthroposophia Theomagica ), and philosophers Immanuel Hermann Fichte and Robert Zimmermann ( Anthroposophie im Umriss ); Steiner wrote his doctoral thesis on Fichte and attended Zimmermann's classes at the University of Vienna.

In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

Marlborough realised the great opportunity created by the early victory of Ramillies: " We now have the whole summer before us ," wrote the Duke from Brussels to Robert Harley, " and with the blessing of God I shall make the best use of it.

Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

After attending one such lecture, UFO investigator Robert Sheaffer wrote " Some of his “ rods ” were obviously insects zipping across the field at a high angular rate.

Robert Ashcroft, a leading member, wrote an article which challenged Christadelphian belief in plenary inspiration and which, although he himself left, led to a division in the main body.

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

Robert Lowell wrote in 1947, " Nothing could be more wrongheaded, than the English disputes about Dylan Thomas's greatness ...

In October 1595 Oxford wrote to his brother in law, Sir Robert Cecil of friction between himself and the ill-fated Earl of Essex, partly over his claim to the property, terming him ' the only person that I dare rely upon in the court '.

Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.

In July 1600 Oxford wrote requesting Sir Robert Cecil's help in securing an appointment as Governor of the Isle of Jersey, once again citing the Queen's unfulfilled promises to him.

The English Rosicrucian society, founded in 1867 by Robert Wentworth Little, claimed Bulwer-Lytton as their ' Grand Patron ', but he wrote to the society complaining that he was ' extremely surprised ' by their use of the title, as he had ' never sanctioned such '.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

* Business historian Robert Sobel wrote For Want of a Nail, a fictional history of an alternate North America which included hundreds of fictional footnotes and a bibliography listing over a hundred fictional histories and biographies.

In 1932 he wrote in a letter to Robert E. Howard: " All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

The most prominent case is Robert T. Morris, who was a user of MIT-AI, yet wrote the Morris worm.

Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound wrote, in a 2008 editorial ( on Issue 183 ), that " blind listening tests fundamentally distort the listening process and are worthless in determining the audibility of a certain phenomenon.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

" There has long been a lively debate about who is the strongest player of all ", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his New York Times column of Aug. 26, 1997.