By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.

The drama itself should " delight the eyes and ears, to rouse up and to affect the hearts of an audience, without the risk of sinning against reason or common sense ".

Though Roman satire is sometimes linked to the Greek satyr plays, satire's only connection to the satyric drama is through the subversive nature of the satyrs themselves, as forces in opposition to urbanity, decorum, and civilization itself.

", has been called one of the most malleable in English drama, lending itself to interpretations ranging from incredulous or scandalised to baffled.

A force which deploys itself, without obstacle, as the one which produces a straight line corresponds with lyricism ; several forces which confront ( or annoy ) each other form a drama.

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

The event was a drama itself: Suicides of despondent fans were reported.

The other main source for the play is George Whetstone's 1578 lengthy two-part closet drama Promos and Cassandra, which itself is sourced from Cinthio.

To an extent, Valaquenta gives a meaning or a ' genealogy ', or both, to many scenes in the larger Quenta Silmarillion ; it is a virtual ' list of players ' for important parts of that ensuing drama, which drama itself ( as a collection of mythic tales ) provides a foundational background for the world that comes after ( in particular for those stories comprising the more widely known histories of Middle-earth, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ).

The best-known use of the location occurred in 1966-1967 when McGoohan returned to Portmeirion to film exteriors for The Prisoner, a surreal spy drama in which Portmeirion itself played a starring role as " The Village ".

On June 12, 2001, TNT relaunched itself, with a new logo ( by Trollbäck + Company ) and a new slogan, " We Know Drama ," which emphasized the channel's new focus on programming with drama and energy, such as sports and network TV dramas like Angel, Law & Order, Charmed, NYPD Blue, ER, Without a Trace, Alias, Judging Amy, Las Vegas and Cold Case.

This includes the entirety of the soap opera Coronation Street which is now held at the Yorkshire Television archive, which itself possesses largely intact archives ( although some early colour shows from the late 1960s and the early 1970s such as the entire output of the drama Castle Haven, the first two series of Sez Les and the children's variety show Junior Showtime are missing and believed wiped ).

Tudor drama, in particular, modeled itself after classical ideals and divided works into Tragedy and Comedy.

" The name itself was originally inspired by Margot Stevenson, the Broadway ingénue who would later be chosen to voice Lane opposite Welles ' Shadow during " the 1938 Goodrich summer season of the radio drama.

Augier's first drama, La Ciguë, belongs to a time ( 1844 ) when romantic drama was on the wane ; and his almost elusively domestic range of subject scarcely lends itself to lyric bursts of pure poetry.

He was a masterly judge of acting and of stage effect ; his views as to the drama itself were somewhat narrow and indifferent to artistic progress.

The company also produced the detective drama Inspector Morse in association with Zenith Productions, a production company originally set up to be an in-house subsidiary of Central specialising in high-cost filmed drama, but which in 1987 was sold to Carlton Communications, the company that eventually was to purchase Central itself.

The story of both the film itself and the audio drama is mostly comedic in nature: Master Asia appears as an " anonymous movie-fanatic old geezer ", and a running joke involves Sai's annoyance that the film had cast him as a female and given Rain his place as Neo-China's fighter.

Belying the assumption that the compound itself might have an equally antique use as the singular kalari and payattu, the unpublished Malayalam Lexicon notes that the earliest use of the compound, kalarippayattu is in Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer's early twentieth century drama Amba when it is probable that the systems of martial practice assumed a structure and style akin those extant today.

* The drama society calls itself Argus Eyes, in reference to Argus " Panoptes ", who, according to Greek mythology, had his 100 eyes preserved by Hera in the tail of the peacock.

English-language radio drama seems to have started in the United States.

Although the novel does assume in its readers a degree of familiarity with the battle between clerical political interests and governmental influence in the provincial towns of the Second Empire-knowledge which Zola's contemporary readers would certainly have taken for granted, but which seems obscure and almost arcane now-its strength lies not in its politics but in its human drama.

Within These Walls, a prison drama starring veteran actress Googie Withers, seems to have inspired the later Australian soap opera Prisoner Cell Block H. Lillie was based on the real-life story of Lillie Langtry, and saw Francesca Annis reprising the role from ATV's Edward the Seventh, and The Gentle Touch starring Jill Gascoine was the UK's first drama series with a female police detective in the lead role.

It seems that he believed that ' the first act of the approaching revolutionary drama Germany will coincide with the direct victory of their own class in France and will thereby be accelerated '.

Unusually for episodic radio drama, several episodes were sequels of earlier broadcasts, or at least recycled the same ideas: A character and setting from the very first episode " Nothing Behind the Door " ( 8 June 1947 ) are referenced in one of the last episodes, " The Other Side of the Stars "; in " The Man Who Knew Everything " ( 6 March 1949 ) the titular character seems to die at the episode's end, only to return in " The Venetian Blind Man " ( 3 April 1949 ).

The play, which is said to have been written by one Jennifer Banberry, seems to start out as a conventional drama, but ends with Joey's character " Victor " being taken from his apartment by aliens from the planet Blargon-7.

The Fringe got its name the following year ( 1948 ) after Robert Kemp, a Scottish playwright and journalist, wrote during the second Edinburgh International Festival: ‘ Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before ...

He sometimes presents a counter-balance to the drama of the rest of the characters, as his relationship with his girlfriend ( who remains off-screen ) seems to be going well.

This seems to be the lingering question and the basis for a great unfolding drama.

Her boss, Mr. Pinkley, often asked the impossible, and Cathy always seems to pull through in the end and give him and the client exactly what they wanted, albeit with quite a bit of drama.

The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival ( 1948 ) as a ‘ fringe ’, writing: ‘ Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before ’.

The practice of running residential holidays for children away from their own home seems to have originated in Appenzell in the Alps in 1876, when Pastor Bion set up holiday camps in which children made tree-houses, sang songs, did drama, made kites and had adventure games.

The drama seems to be about a chess match, and even contains a genuine chess opening: the Queen's Gambit Declined.

According to Suidas, Chaeremon was also a comic poet, and the title of at least one of his plays ( Achilles Slayer of Thersites ) seems to indicate that it was a satyric drama.

Jane seems very committed to seeing Valerie is comfortable on camera and is forced to endure the drama that Valerie creates.

Racine seems to have chosen the subject in competition with Pierre Corneille, who was working on his drama Tite et Bérénice at the same time.

In the drama, Tetsu seems to like Kumiko, but unfortunately he doesn't seem to have very good chances of getting romantically involved with her, as she considers him to be like family.

Discussions about the origins of non-religious theater (" théâtre profane ") -- both drama and farce — in the Middle Ages remain controversial, but the idea of a continuous popular tradition stemming from Latin comedy and tragedy to the 9th century seems unlikely.

Danson added that she likes the idea of being a party girl like Leanne but the reality is quite different and that Leanne seems to like drama and danger in her life.

While accepting an award for a police / family drama called " Squat !," which stars their parents and seems identical to the show on the first side of the album, Skip and Kim Coolzip reveal a gun.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

On the narrower ground of poetic form, he felt that in the drama of the future the Greek conception of tragic fate should be joined to the Shakespearean vision of tragic will.

The possibility has to be ruled out that the medium's ESP may tap the memory of the sitter, and to do this, the two central characters in this drama must be separated.

It might be argued that the Communists are less inhuman than the Nazis and furnish the artist with drama in a lower key.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.

Writing in the Brooklyn Eagle, drama critic Arthur Pollock called it " an unusual piece of work by a director not nearly so well-known as he should be.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

Pauline Kiernan argues that Shakespeare changed English drama forever in Hamlet because he " showed how a character's language can often be saying several things at once, and contradictory meanings at that, to reflect fragmented thoughts and disturbed feelings.

So far as can be seen, the chief interest in Homer's works is that of human feeling and emotion, and of drama ; indeed, his works are often referred to as " dramas ".

They seem to be working pretty well together, but at some point drama must rear its head.

The word " Jedi " may be derived from the Japanese word " Jidaigeki " ( 時代劇 ) which translates as " period adventure drama ".

In 1985, Richardson made her film debut as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom, in Mike Newell's biographical drama, Dance With a Stranger.

He advocated that opera seria had to return to basics and that all the various elements — music ( both instrumental and vocal ), ballet, and staging — must be subservient to the overriding drama.

Dramatic poetry is drama written in verse to be spoken or sung, and appears in varying, sometimes related forms in many cultures.