Modern critics call the Greek playwright Aristophanes one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their critical political and societal commentary, particularly for the political satire by which he criticized the powerful Cleon ( as in The Knights ).

Modern editions divide the play into a conventional five act structure, but as in most of his earlier plays, Shakespeare did not create these act divisions.

Modern adaptations of Shakespeare's plays also use low comedy to convey a different understanding of the play.

She plays Dr. Jean in the Alan segments on Modern Toss.

Modern digital technology has also enabled a power trio to duplicate their studio performances in concert, as evidenced by Rush's 1989 live album, A Show of Hands, where Lee simultaneously sings, plays bass, and plays keyboard with foot pedals.

Plato's Apology may be read as both a religious and literary apology ; however, more specifically literary examples may be found in the prefaces and dedications, which proceed many Early Modern plays, novels, and poems.

In The Great Dictator, Chaplin's first film after Modern Times, Chaplin plays the dual role of a Hitler-esque dictator, and a Jewish Barber.

After attending Bedford Modern School, where he wrote amateur plays, he became a schoolteacher, working at the Bedford Froebel Kindergarten and Hazelwood School in Limpsfield, Surrey.

The Modern Language Association of America continues the " New Variorum " project with the goal of definitively annotating all 38 of Shakespeare's plays.

* Another popular response is 1 ... g6, a sort of Modern Defense, which may transpose into a reversed Dutch Defense ( if Black plays ... d5 and ... c5 ), or a Sicilian Defence ( if White plays e4 and Black plays ... c5 ).

The species A. clematitis was highly regarded as a medicinal plant since the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and on to until the Early Modern era ; it also plays a role in Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ).

Modern Nepal Bhasa literature began in the 1940s with the emergence of new genres like short stories, poems, essays, novels and plays.

Although most famous abroad for his touring productions of European classics, Ninagawa has also directed works based on contemporary writing from Japan, including the Modern Noh plays of Yukio Mishima ( which toured to New York's Lincoln Center in early summer 2005 ) and several other plays by Japanese dramatists, including Shūji Terayama and Kunio Shimizu.

Modern plays ( as opposed to those in Latin and Greek ) were considered ephemeral and even somewhat disreputable entertainments by some contemporaries ; the new Bodleian Library explicitly refused to shelve plays.

Modern plays often have only one level of structure, which can be referred to as either scenes or acts at the whim of the writer ; and some writers dispense with firm divisions entirely.

Originated in the Early Modern period of literature as Rafe, Robin, and Dick, who were often used as characters in plays.

* 1 ... g6 ( leads to the Modern Defense by transposition if White plays 2. e4 )

Andru Donalds sings on this high tempo and rock-ish song, " Modern Crusaders ", with significantly large portions of " O Fortuna " in the middle as Jens Gad plays the guitar.

Magnapop went on to record four extended plays and three studio albums through the 1990s and released two minor hit singles on the Modern Rock Tracks chart —" Slowly, Slowly " and " Open the Door ".

* Modern Neopagans, especially Eco-Pagans, sometimes like to describe themselves as animists, meaning that they respect the diverse community of living beings and spirits with whom humans share the world / cosmos.

Modern Jains deny this vehemently, especially with regard to Mahavira himself.

Modern Bulgarian was based essentially on the Eastern dialects of the language, but its pronunciation is in many respects a compromise between East and West Bulgarian ( see especially the phonetic sections below ).

It is especially important in Argentine Tango, Lindy Hop, Balboa, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Salsa, Contra dance, Modern Jive and other styles of partner dance.

Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between " language " and " dialect " an issue of great political importance.

Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

Modern borrowings ( from the 20th century on ), especially from French and English, are typically not inflected.

Modern hackers who hold true to the hacker ethics — especially the Hands-On Imperative — are usually supporters of free and open source software.

Modern industry first appeared in textiles, including cotton and especially silk, which was based in home workshops in rural areas.

Modern Kabaddi resembles this form of Kabaddi especially with regard to ' out & in system ' and ' Iona '.

Modern NLP algorithms are based on machine learning, especially statistical machine learning.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Modern police in Europe has a precedent in the Hermandades, or " brotherhoods ", peacekeeping associations of armed individuals, a characteristic of municipal life in medieval Spain, especially in Castile.

Modern historians are especially impressed with the manner in which Polybius used his sources, and in particular documents, his citation and quotation of his sources.

Modern Democratic theories and implementations, especially after Montesquieu's theories, rely on the separation of powers: Executive ( government and police ), legislative ( parliament ) and judicial ( court ) branches of power are separated.

Modern hookah smokers, especially in the US, smoke " me ' assel " " moassel " " molasses " or " shisha " all names for the same wet mixture of tobacco, molasses / honey, glycerine, and often, flavoring.

Modern Western universities evolved from the monastic institutions and ( especially ) cathedral schools of Western Europe during the High Middle Ages ( see, for instance, the University of Bologna, Paris University and Oxford University ).

Modern " paper vellum " ( vegetable vellum ) is used for a variety of purposes, especially for plans, technical drawings, and blueprints.

Modern German dialects generally have only or for West Germanic, but or remains heard allophonically for ‹ w ›, especially in the clusters ‹ schw ›, ‹ zw › and ‹ qu ›.

Historically these beliefs were notable in Early Modern Europe of the 14th to 18th century, where witchcraft came to be seen as a vast diabolical conspiracy against Christianity and accusations of witchcraft led to large-scale witch-hunts, especially in Germanic Europe.

The intellectual and spiritual tensions erupted in the Early Modern witch craze, further reinforced by the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, especially in Germany, England, and Scotland.

In medieval and Early Modern Europe, there were as many as two hundred such territories, especially in Italy, Germany, and Gaelic Ireland.

A quarterstaff ( plural quarterstaves ), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European pole weapon and a technique of stick fighting, especially as in use in England during the Early Modern period.

Modern cake, especially layer cakes, normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid ( typically milk or water ) and leavening agents ( such as yeast or baking powder ).

Modern scholars and readers have criticized the book for what are seen as condescending racist descriptions of the book's black characters, especially with regard to the characters ' appearances, speech, and behavior, as well as the passive nature of Uncle Tom in accepting his fate.