The life of Amalasunta was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Goldoni and presented at Milan in ( 1733 ).

This play, The Persians, is the only extant classical Greek tragedy concerned with recent history ( very few of that kind were ever written ) and it is a useful source of information about that period.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

He outlined his conception of the play as a " modern tragedy " in a note written in Rome on 19 October 1878.

In Germany, the actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the play as written, declaring that " I would never leave my children!

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

In 1648 there appeared the play Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet by Jean Magnon, and in 1725 Handel's Tamerlano was first performed and published in London ; Vivaldi's version of the story, Bajazet, was written in 1735.

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

In a subsequent letter to the daughter of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pasternak explained that the attack was motivated by the fact that the supernatural elements of the play, which Novy Mir considered, " irrational ," had been translated as Goethe had written them.

Single-sex theatrical troupes often have some performers cross-dress to play roles written for members of the opposite sex.

His next play, Belisario, written in 1734, was more successful, though of its success he afterward professed himself ashamed.

Among the advantages to unfretted instruments are flexibility in tuning ( the temperament can be easily altered ) and the ability to play any music exactly as written without concern for " bad " notes.

* The play entitled Esther ( 1960 ), written by Welsh dramatist Saunders Lewis, is a retelling of the story in Welsh.

In a scene written years later by Bradbury for the Fahrenheit 451 play, Beatty invites Montag to his house where he shows him walls of books left to molder on their shelves.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ), Karel Čapek's 1921 play which coined the term robot ; the play was written in Prague and while Capek denied that he modeled the robot after the Golem, there are many similarities in the plot.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

Otello, based on William Shakespeare's play, with a libretto written by the younger composer of Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito, premiered in Milan in 1887.

Gilbert had written a blank verse farce based on the same material in 1870, called The Princess, and he reused a good deal of the dialogue from his earlier play in the libretto of Princess Ida.

He may also have drawn on or perhaps written an earlier ( hypothetical ) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

While in European classical music elements of interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment are sometimes left to the performer's discretion, the performer's primary goal is to play a composition as it was written.

In 1940, Le Bel Indifférent, Cocteau's play written for and starring Édith Piaf, was enormously successful.

" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.

Spader starred as a lead character in Race, a play written and directed by David Mamet, alongside Richard Thomas, David Alan Grier and Kerry Washington.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

* Livius Andronicus ( c. 284 BC – 204 BC ), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c. 240 BC

Formal Latin literature began in 240 BC, when a Roman audience saw a Latin version of a Greek play.

Ludo ( from Latin ludo, " I play ") is a board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls.

Another Greek play with a similar name, Misogunos ( Μισόγυνος ) or Woman-hater, is reported by Cicero ( in Latin ) and attributed to ( Marcus ) Atilius ( poet ).

It was something like the well-known ' pig Latin ' that all sorts of children like to play with.

In Prometheus Unbound ( 1820 ), a four-act lyrical drama, Percy Bysshe Shelley rewrites the lost play of Aeschylus so that Prometheus does not submit to Zeus ( under the Latin name Jupiter ), but instead supplants him in a triumph of the human heart and intellect over tyrannical religion.

Since girls could play no role in the ministry, and since grammar schools were designed to “ instruct youth so far as they may be fited for the university ,” Latin grammar schools did not accept girls ( nor did Harvard ).

Plautus did not set out to write a play in archaic Latin ; the term archaic merely comes from later perspective on the text.

Research done by Enrique Mendizabal shows that Latin American think tanks play various roles depending on their origins, historical development and relations to other policy actors.

In the musical Spring Awakening, based on the play of the same title by Frank Wedekind, schoolboys study the Latin text, and the first verse of Book 1 is incorporated into the number " All That's Known ".

From the guild control originated the term mystery play or mysteries, from the Latin misterium meaning " occupation " ( i. e. that of the guilds ).

The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).

In 1981, Queen travelled to South America as part of The Game Tour, and became the first major rock band to play in Latin American stadiums.

He translated the Sanskrit play Shakuntala using a Latin version provided by Sir William Jones: this strongly influenced Herder and triggered German interest in the culture of India.

Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife presented the game to Waddingtons's executive, Norman Watson, who immediately purchased the game and provided its trademark name of " Cluedo " ( a play on " clue " and " Ludo "; ludo is Latin for I play ).

Bass guitar players who may use subwoofer cabinets include performers who play with extended range basses that include a low " B " string ( about 31 Hz ); bassists who play in styles where a very powerful sub-bass response is an important part of the sound ( e. g., funk, Latin, gospel, R & B, etc.

Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post.

The Latin words Et tu, Brute ?, however, were not devised by Shakespeare for this play, since they are attributed to Caesar in earlier Elizabethan works and had become conventional by 1599.

In this highly personal work, Orff presented a mystery play, in which he summarized his view on the end of time, sung in Greek, German, and Latin.

* Lucentio – suitor of Bianca ( spends some of play disguised as Cambio, a Latin tutor )