That is the play.

Yet it is not only Europe the play refers to.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

He is forced to play for little money, and must often take another job to live.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

He is appreciative of the expert help available to him and draws these resources into play, taking care to examine at least some of the raw material which underlies their frequently policy-oriented conclusions.

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 ''.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention.

There is some evidence that naturally occurring goitrogens may play a role in the development of goitre, particularly in Tasmania and Australia ( Clements and Wishart, 1956 ).

In view of the important role which emotional disturbances play in the genesis of neurotic and psychotic disorders and the parallelism observed between autonomic states and psychological behavior in several instances, it is further suggested that a hypothalamic imbalance may play an important role in initiating mental changes.

The process of social control is operative insofar as sanctions play a part in the individual's behavior, as well as the group's behavior.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

Although he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big kick -- several every Saturday, in fact -- out of football.

`` It is like handing a loaded automatic to an 8-year-old and telling him to run out and play '', he commented.

it must play a game in which there never is a winner.

The situation in which we find ourselves is brought out with dramatic force in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which deals with the Salem witch trials.

As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.

As the play unfolds, however, the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community.

At first, Clark thought the recording was too gory to play on Bandstand and made Zacherle return to the studio to cut a second tamer version.

Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother.

The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

In his The Interpretation of Dreams ( 1900 ), Freud's analysis starts from the premise that " the play is built up on Hamlet's hesitations over fulfilling the task of revenge that is assigned to him ; but its text offers no reasons or motives for these hesitations ".

Reviews varied at the time and since but whatever the critique, the play represents Cocteau's state of mind and feelings towards his actors at the time: on the one hand, he wanted to spoil and please them ; on the other, he was fed up by their diva antics and was ready for revenge.

Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson — a domineering and arrogant character who everyone hated — in his play Hotel in Amsterdam.

The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths.

The primary source for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, as well as Titus ' subsequent revenge, is Ovid's Metamorphoses ( c. AD 8 ), which is featured in the play itself when Lavinia uses it to help explain to Titus and Marcus what happened to her during the attack.

Titus ' revenge may also have been influenced by Seneca's play Thyestes, written in the first century AD.

When he fails to be awarded the prestigious Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor, he sets out exacting bloody revenge on the critics who gave him poor reviews, with each act inspired by a death in a Shakespeare play.

He has traveled throughout Asia and other foreign lands, gathering a cult of female worshipers ( Bacchantes ), and at the start of the play has returned to take revenge on the house of Cadmus, disguised as a stranger.

Typically delivered by telephone, or other telecommunication means, the great majority of such threats are sociopathic behavior, intended to cause disruption, revenge or play practical jokes, rather than warning of real devices ..

As an updated Greek tragedy, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus.

Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for slandering the polis with an earlier play, The Babylonians ( 426 BC ), for which the young dramatist had promised revenge in The Acharnians ( 425 BC ), and it was in The Knights ( 424 BC ) that his revenge was exacted.

* 1748 ( Kan ' en 1 ): The first performance of the eleven-act puppet play Kanadehon Chushingura ( A copybook of the treasury of loyal retainers ), depicting the classic story of samurai revenge, the 1702 vendetta of the 47 rōnin.

The conditions of the match against Lasker are still debated among chess historians, but it seems Schlechter accepted to play under very unfavourable conditions, notably that he would need to finish two points ahead of Lasker to be declared the winner of the match, and he would need to win a revenge match to be declared World Champion.

The theme of revenge is pastiched from Hamlet, but the play focuses on the atrocities of blood retribution instead of developing philosophical reflection.

The play, a visionary exploration of global ecology made through gender, storytelling, distorted language and modern urban life, follows an ancient and shapeshifting death portent ( The Skriker ) in her search for love, revenge and human understanding.

The play earned the 49ers a 24 – 21 victory and a bit of revenge on the Vikings, who had defeated them in the 1987 playoffs.

Curiously, the terms of the revenge stated that Sílvio Machado ( he scored five goals in the first match ) could not play.

Their revenge scheme will play an important role in the Gauntlet.

" When he read the play, her brother Thurn accused her of wanting " revenge for something long dead and to be forgotten ," but Barnes, in the margin of his letter, described her motive instead as " justice ," and next to the word dead he wrote, " not dead.

In a deleted scene, Happy gets his revenge by daring Donald to " show him how to play golf ", which Donald reveals he's terrible at, humiliating him and Donald vows revenge.