Recently, he has been concerned with the relationship between written culture as a whole and literature ( particularly theatrical plays ) for France, England and Spain.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".

It could be that Ayckbourn had written plays with himself and his own issues in mind, but as Ayckbourn is portrayed as a guarded and private man, it is hard to imagine him exposing his own life in his plays to any great degree.

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher.

Goldoni's plays that were written while he was still in Italy ignore religious and ecclesiastical subjects.

One of his earliest extant plays, Medea, includes a speech that he seems to have written in defence of himself as an intellectual ahead of his time, though he has put it in the mouth of the play's heroine:

The textual transmission of the plays from the fifth century BC, when they were first written, up until the era of the printing press, was largely a haphazard process in which much of Euripides's work was lost and corrupted, but it also included triumphs by scholars and copyists, thanks to whom much was also recovered and preserved.

The plays of Euripides, like those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, were circulated in written form in the fifth century among literary members of the audience and performers at minor festivals, as aide-memoirs.

Many more errors came from the tendency of actors to interpolate words and sentences, producing so many corruptions and variations that a law was proposed by Lycurgus of Athens in 330 BC "... that the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides should be written down and preserved in a public office ; and that the town clerk should read the text over with the actors ; and that all performances which did not comply with this regulation should be illegal.

) References in Euripides's plays to contemporary events provide a terminus a quo, though sometimes the references might even precede a datable event ( e. g. lines 1074-89 in Ion describe a procession to Eleusis, which was probably written before the Spartans occupied it during the Peloponnesian War ).

Frigg plays a major role in section 49 of the 13th century Prose Edda book Gylfaginning written by Snorri Sturluson, where a version of a story relating the death of Baldr is recorded by Snorri.

However, a number of writers of the novels and audio plays are also writing for the new television series, and Russell T Davies refers to the comic strips, audio plays and novels in an essay describing the Time War, written for the Doctor Who Annual 2006.

The playwright William Shakespeare had already used the family history of Northumberland's family in his Henry IV series of plays, and the events of the Gunpowder Plot seem to have featured alongside the earlier Gowrie conspiracy in Macbeth, written some time between 1603 and 1607.

Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language.

From at least the Yuan dynasty, plays that recounted the subversive tales of China's Robin Hoods to the Ming dynasty novels such as Water Margin, on down to the Qing dynasty novel Dream of the Red Chamber and beyond, there developed a literature in written vernacular Chinese ( 白話 / 白话 ; báihuà ).

Most music is written for two hands ; typically the right hand plays the melody in the treble range, while the left plays an accompaniment of bass notes and chords in the bass range.

He has been openly gay throughout his public life, and he has written many novels ( The Duchess and the Commoner, La nuit des princes charmants, Le Coeur découvert, Le Coeur éclaté ) and plays ( Hosanna, La duchesse de Langeais, Fragments de mensonges inutiles ) centred on gay characters.

Some Oxfordians believe that Shakespeare acted as a " front man ," receiving the plays from Oxford and pretending to have written them, but others claim that he was simply a merchant from Stratford who had nothing to do with the theatre.

Though Oxford died in 1604 before approximately 12 of the plays were written according to the generally-accepted chronology, Oxfordians say that regular publication of new, " newly augmented ", and " corrected " Shakespeare plays stopped with Oxford's death in 1604, and they interpret certain written references to Shakespeare between 1604 and 1616 to mean that the writer was dead.

I believe there are seventeen short plays by Tom now housed in the Houghton Library at Harvard ; ;

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported originals -- A Taste Of Honey, by Britain's young ( 19 when she wrote it ) Shelagh Delaney ; ;

the purpose of producing plays at the College is three-fold: to provide the Carleton students with the best possible opportunity for theater-going within the limits set by the maturity and experience of the performers and the theatrical facilities available ; ;

the attitude adopted by realtors and their associations, either negative or positive, plays a large part in the public acceptance of such measures and the degree to which they may be effectively enforced.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

The scene where Obadiah Stane, the archrival of ' Tony ' Stark, the wealthy industrialist turned Ironman, tells Tony that he is being ousted from his company by the board, Obadiah plays the opening few bars of the Salieri concerto on a piano in Stark's suite.

The Archbishop of Canterbury plays a central part in national ceremonies such as coronations ; due to his high public profile, his opinions are often in demand by the news media.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

The superior colliculus, which plays a major role in visual control of behavior in most vertebrates, shrinks to a small size in mammals, and many of its functions are taken over by visual areas of the cerebral cortex.

* TA — Total average: total bases, plus walks, plus hit by pitch, plus steals, minus caught stealing divided by at bats, minus hits, plus caught stealing, plus grounded into double plays

* FP — Fielding percentage: total plays ( chances minus errors ) divided by the number of total chances

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

The central message, that " the just shall live by his faith " ( 2: 4 ), plays an important role in Christian thought.

She plays a central role in the first part of G. A. Henty's novel Beric the Briton and in a children's novel by Henry Treece.

The Australian band VulgarGrad, fronted by actor Jacek Koman, which plays songs of the Russian criminal underground, uses a contrabass balalaika.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

It is usually brought in by the cook, generally while a piper plays bagpipes and leads the way to the host's table, where the haggis is laid down.

Jacques Perrin, who co-produced, plays a key role.

The re-capture of Breda alone resulted in major works by Velázquez, the French etcher Jacques Callot, in addition to various plays and books.

She then moved to Paris, where she appeared in boulevard plays by Jacques Deval and Marcel Achard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and Françoise Sagan.

The band's original members were Martyn Jacques on vocals, accordion, piano and ukulele, Adrian Huge on drums, percussion and toys and Phil Butcher on double bass, who was succeeded in 1995 by Adrian Stout who also plays the theremin and musical saw.

In the film Malkovich plays an American writer who travels to Portugal with his wife ( Deneuve ) to research his theory that William Shakespeare was really Jacques Perez, a Jewish Spaniard who fled his native country to avoid the Spanish Inquisition.

He is the artistic director of theatre company Mammalian Diving Reflex, has written many plays including A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan ?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad, Over, and pppeeeaaaccceee, and has published one novel entitled Your Secrets Sleep With Me.

* Jacques, boss character from the original Spyro the Dragon ( also the level's name, and the name of the music track which plays during the level ; however, Stewart Copeland has referred to the music as " Rain ".

His next group of tragedies Marc-Antoine ( 1578 ), La Troade ( 1579 ), Antigone ( acted and printed 1580 ) shows an advance on the theatre of Étienne Jodelle and Jacques Grévin, and on his own early plays, in so much that the rhetorical element is accompanied by abundance of action, though this is accomplished by the plan of joining together two virtually independent pieces in the same way.