In a play that follows a climatic plot construction, Dionysus the Protagonist, instigates the unfolding action by simultaneously emulating the play's author, costume designer, choreographer and artistic director.

She married the play's author Ronald Gow, fifteen years her senior, in 1937 ( the same year as she made her film debut in Lancashire Luck, scripted by Gow ).

It reproaches the audience for the play's failure at the festival, where it was beaten by the works of inferior authors, and it praises the author for originality and for his courage in lampooning influential politicians such as Cleon.

Wilkins, who with Shakespeare was a witness in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit of 1612, has been an obvious candidate for the author of the non-Shakespearean matter in the play's first two acts ; Wilkins wrote plays very similar in style, and no better candidate has been found.

The anonymous Life states that this advice was the basis of Aristophanes ’ receipt of the olive wreath, and the author of the ancient Hypothesis says admiration of the parabasis was the major factor that led to the play's second production.

After some further revisions, performances in Rome in 1863 ( as Don Alvaro ) and Madrid ( with the Duke of Rivas, the play's author, in attendance ) followed shortly afterwards, and the opera subsequently travelled to New York and Vienna ( 1865 ), Buenos Aires ( 1866 ) and London ( 1867 ).

A. P. Rossiter states " There is not the smallest chance that he was Shakespeare ", citing the drabness of the verse, while acknowledging that the play's aspirations indicate that " There is something of a simplified Shakespeare " in the author.

MacDonald P. Jackson argued that Samuel Rowley was the play's author.

In this play, the author himself becomes a major target for the play's mock-heroic humour.

: Lamachus is another victim of the play's humour but one of the jokes appears not to be by the author.

The question of the play's date is complicated by the question of its authorship ; if Charles Tilney was the play's author ( see below ), it must date prior to Tilney's death in 1586.

In his autobiography, the play's author Arthur Laurents states, " It came down to between Suzanne Pleshette and Sandra Church.

In 1958, it was made as a British film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson: the screenplay was written by the play's author, John Osborne with Nigel Kneale.

Unfortunately, the author did not benefit from his play's success: not long after he finished writing it, Zorrilla sold the rights to the play, since he did not expect it to be much more successful than any of his other works.

Assured by hotel manager Joe Gribble ( Cliff Dunstan ), who happens to be Miller's brother-in-law, that Miller had skipped, Wagner is surprised to find Miller still in his room, now joined by the play's author, Leo Davis ( Frank Albertson ), who has arrived in town and checked into Miller's room.

Later, as the play is about to open, the cheque from Fisk bounces, Miller, Binelli, and Englund manipulate Wagner into believing he's driven the play's author to take poison.

When questioned on the play's apparent lack of connection to the previous installments, producer and writer Alan Stevens often directs listeners to the analysis of the play by author Dale Smith, posted to Outpost Gallifrey's forums.

This review began a lifelong relationship with the play's author, Edward Albee, that included Gussow's 1999 biography of the playwright entitled Edward Albee: A Singular Journey.

Elckerlijc, which was translated into English to become the famous Everyman, has come down to us in manuscripts that fail to mention the play's author.

Ibsen's last work When We Dead Awaken also contains examples of ekphrasis as the play's protagonist, Arnold Rubek, is a sculptor who several times throughout the play describes his masterpiece " Resurrection Day " at length and in the many different forms the sculpture took throughout the stages of its creation.

Sondheim wrote the lyrics and music over a two-day period during rehearsals for the play's Broadway debut, specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée.

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

Helen P. Foley wrote of the links between the importance of Dionysus as the central character and his effect on the play's structure, she writes: " the poet uses the ritual crisis to explore simultaneously god, man, society, and his own tragic art.

Whitehouse's account of the trial is recorded in A Most Dangerous Woman ( ISBN 0-85648-540-3 ); she wrote that she was of the opinion that the legal point had been established, and they had no wish to criminalise Bogdanov, the play's director.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote: " Ms. Gyllenhaal provides the essential bridge between the parts of the play's title.

He turned to his favourite of Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream creating analogues of the play's main otherworldly characters and inventing the fiction that Shakespeare wrote the play to Dream's instructions to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie and its rulers, Lord Auberon and Lady Titania.

Shaw wrote a preface for the play's publication, in which he derided the idea that charities should only take money from " morally pure " sources.

In the tradition of Romantic poetry, Shelley wrote for the imagination, intending his play's stage to reside in the imaginations of his readers.

" Of that play's subsequent London production at the Almeida Theater, critic Michael Billington of the Guardian wrote that Ong " has a remarkable gift for distilled dialogue and for pinning down the fragmentation, solitude and despair of the city of dreams.

Playwright John Sable chose Women on Top ( another book by Nancy Friday ) as the play's title largely due to its more provocative connotation.

On the cover of the published book of the play, the use of a semicolon in place of the letter i gives W ; t as one representation of the play's title.

The purpose of the organization is to further the interest of women students in recreational activities as a means of promoting physical efficiency, sportsmanship, and `` play for play's sake ''.

It was felt by Ibsen's German agent that the original ending would not play well in German theatres ; therefore, for the play's German debut, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending for it to be considered acceptable.

Remarkably, it still works well enough in the theatre: audiences at the reconstruction of ' Shakespeare's Globe ' in London, many of whom have never been to the theatre before, let alone to a play by Shakespeare, seem to have little difficulty grasping the play's action.

Much of the play's Protestantism derives from its location in Denmark — both then and now a predominantly Protestant country, though it is unclear whether the fictional Denmark of the play is intended to mirror this fact.

Lacan's theories influenced literary criticism of Hamlet because of his alternative vision of the play and his use of semantics to explore the play's psychological landscape.

Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.

However, the play's principal source, the Spanish Diana Enamorada, would not be translated into French or English until 1578, meaning that someone basing a play on it that early could only have read it in the original Spanish, and there is no evidence that Oxford spoke this language.

Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

A play related to The Spanish Tragedy called The First Part of Hieronimo ( surviving in a quarto of 1605 ) may be a bad quarto or memorial reconstruction of a play by Kyd, or it may be an inferior writer's burlesque of The Spanish Tragedy inspired by that play's popularity.

The play follows his early dismay at his lack of composing success, to the creation of The Planets suite, with the play's seven tiers following the structure of The Planets.

Cardinal Richelieu's Académie Française acknowledged the play's success, but determined that it was defective, in part because it did not respect the classical unities of time, place, and action ( Unity of Time stipulated that all the action in a play must take place within a twenty-four hour time-frame ; Unity of Place, that there must be only one setting for the action ; and Unity of Action, that the plot must be centred around a single conflict or problem ).

The play's West End transfer, after an eight-month run at the National, gave an opportunity for re-appraisal and The Daily Telegraph commented: " I have never left a play more convinced that I had just witnessed a masterpiece ".

The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".

Efforts to establish the play's date of composition and genesis have been complicated by its uncertain relationship with another Elizabethan play with an almost identical plot but different wording and character names, A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called the taming of a Shrew, which is often theorised to be a reported text of a performance of The Shrew, a source for The Shrew, or an early draft ( possibly reported ) of The Shrew.

Others have defended the play by highlighting the ( frequently unstaged ) Induction as evidence that the play's sentiments are not meant to be taken at face value, that the entire play is, in fact, a farce.

The first is to emphasise the play's farcical elements, such as Sly and the metatheatrical nature of the Katherina / Petruchio play, thus suggesting that what happens is not to be taken in any way seriously.

Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.

The editors of the Oxford Shakespeare conclude from the play's incidence of rare vocabulary, use of colloquialisms in verse, pause patterns, and infrequent rhyming that the play was composed in 1596, after Richard II but before Henry IV, Part I.

Towards the end of the play, in a climactic moment of reflection, she delivers the play's most famous monologue:

At the start of the play, Dionysus gives us the exposition and from which we can highlight the play's central conflict ; the invasion of Greece by an Asian religion.