In his 1968 film La Mariée était en noir François Truffaut plays on this mythological symbol.

His first article, La Censure en Angleterre, was an attempt to account for the ' extraordinary and illogical ' moral censorship of plays and novels then practised in Britain.

The most profound and lasting effects of Tremblay's early plays, including Hosanna and La Duchesse de Langeais, were the barriers they toppled in Quebec society.

He has been openly gay throughout his public life, and he has written many novels ( The Duchess and the Commoner, La nuit des princes charmants, Le Coeur découvert, Le Coeur éclaté ) and plays ( Hosanna, La duchesse de Langeais, Fragments de mensonges inutiles ) centred on gay characters.

LeVar Burton plays Geordi La Forge, the ship's chief engineer.

Vives became one of the most important zarzuela composers, with such masterpieces as Doňa Francisquita, La villana ( both based on plays by Lope de Vega ) and the through-written opera in zarzuela style Maruxa.

In La Femme Nikita Jean Reno plays a similar character named Victor.

* La Comédie humaine, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays by Honoré de Balzac, set during the Restoration and the July Monarchy

" Pièces noires or " Black plays " were tragedies or realistic dramas and included Antigone, Jézabel, and La Sauvage ( The Restless Heart ).

The grating plays like La Valse des toréadors ( Waltz of the Toreadors ) and Le Réactionnaire amoureux ( The Fighting Cock ) are more bitterly funny, trading clever word play for a darker tone of disillusionment.

Another category Anouilh specifies are his pièces costumées (" costume plays ") which include The Lark, La Foire d ' Empoigne ( Catch as Catch Can ), and Becket, an international success, depicting the historical martyr Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who sought to defend the church against the monarch ( and his friend ), Henry II of England, who had appointed him to his see.

Among his 60 plays, his most famous are: Une puce à l ' oreille ( A Flea in Her Ear, 1907 ), Le Système Ribadier ( 1892 ), La Dame de Chez Maxim ( The Girl from Maxim's, 1899 ), and Hortense a dit: " Je m ' en fous!

* As the Duke of Anjou, the future Henry III plays a significant role in the French film The Princess of Montpensier, based on the novel of the same title by Madame de La Fayette.

" Among the most prominent are the Irish ballad " Finnegan's Wake " from which the book takes its name, Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico's La Scienza Nuova, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the plays of Shakespeare, and religious texts such as the Bible and Qur ' an.

Founded on 18 March 1932, it currently plays in La Liga, holding home games at La Romareda, which seats 34, 596 spectators.

Salsa musician and trombonist Willie Colón plays a Getzen bass trumpet and can be heard improvising on the Fania label recordings Maestra Vida part 1 La Fiesta, Siembra Buscando Guayaba, Cruz and Colon Zambullete, Doble Energia Cuando Tu Quieras and Canciones Del Solar De Los Aburridos Tiburon.

By 1949, Brel became president of La Franche Cordée, and produced a number of benefit plays for the organization, including Saint Exupéry's Le Petit Prince.

While touring with La Barraca, García Lorca wrote his now best-known plays, the Rural Trilogy of Bodas de Sangre ( Blood Wedding ), Yerma and La Casa de Bernarda Alba ( The House of Bernarda Alba ), which all rebelled against the norms of bourgeois Spanish society.

He has also appeared in various musical roles on the stage including " The Producers ", " Bathhouse: The Musical ", " All Shook Up ", " Psycho Beach Party ", " Valley Of The Dolls ", " La Cage aux Folles ", " Curtains ", and " Judy's Scary Little Christmas " where he portrayed legendary Judy Garland and such plays as the controversial " Corpus Christi ".

* Estudio 69 ( she plays " La Chacha " a French maid ) with Miguel Morales

* Labiche: La Cagnotte ( 1864 ) and other plays.

He also plays a part in the novel, The Arm and the Darkness by Taylor Caldwell, as the English ally sought by the Huguenots to help defend their refuge city, La Rochelle, against the siege ordered and led by Cardinal Richelieu, the minister of Louis XIII, King of France.

Cause of all this commotion: squat, pug-nosed, balding, hopelessly ugly Jean-Pierre Bravado, a Bogartian figure, who plays a sadistic, amoral, philosophic Tasti-Freeze salesman in old New-Waver Fredrico de Mille Rossilini's endlessly provocative film, A Sour Sponge.

The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, Herbert A. Simon, and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability to anticipate moves, plays an essential role in chess-playing.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

Olympe de Gouges wrote a number of plays, short stories, and novels.

Spain's most prolific playwright, Lope de Vega, wrote possibly as many as one thousand plays over his lifetime, over four hundred of which survive to the present day.

Vermes calls the Jesus notice in the Testimonium a " veritable tour de force " in which Josephus plays the role of a neutral witness.

These themes were expanded upon in two of his most popular plays of the period — 1929's Jean de la Lune of the Moon a / k / a The Dreamer and 1932's Domino.

Among his most successful later plays were 1952's Les compagnons de la Marjolaine Companions of Marjoram and 1955's Le mal d ' amour Sickness.

The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship proposes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 1550 – 1604 ), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Its distributor, Sony Pictures, advertised that the film " presents a compelling portrait of Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's plays ," and commissioned high school and college-level lesson plans to promote the authorship question to history and literature teachers across the United States.

One major evidential objection to the Oxfordian theory is Edward de Vere's 1604 death, after which a number of Shakespeare's plays are conventionally believed to have been written, according to 300 years of orthodox scholarship.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

If new Shakespearean plays were being written especially for presentation at the Blackfriars ' theatre after 1608, they could not have been written by Edward de Vere.

Shakespeare's use of it in All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure followed his sources for the plays ( stories by Boccaccio and Cinthio ); nevertheless Oxfordians say that de Vere was drawn to these stories because they " paralleled his own ", based on Osborne's anecdote.

In many occasions and functions, even the ' saree ' plays an important role in women's clothing and has become the de facto clothing for female office workers especially in government sector.

In his À la manière de ... Borodine ( In the manner of ... Borodin ), Ravel plays with the ability to both mimic and remain original.

* Essex was played by Sam Reid in the 2011 film Anonymous, a fictional biopic that posits that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of William Shakespeare's plays.

It also plays a significant role in many traditional Andean cultures as well as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta ( see the Traditional uses ).

Both plays were based on the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( nicknamed ' El Cid Campeador '), a military figure in Medieval Spain.