At the center of the drama are the results of Prometheus ' theft of fire and his current punishment by Zeus ; the playwright's dependence on the Hesiodic source material is clear, though Prometheus Bound also includes a number of changes to the received tradition.

He also states that before the Duke of Chandos acquired it, the portrait was owned by Shakespeare's godson, William Davenant ( 1606 – 1668 ), who, according to the gossip chronicler John Aubrey, claimed to be the playwright's illegitimate son.

It has been suggested that Juan Bautista may have been of Jewish stock, and that the Diamante family, including the playwright's half-brothers Pablo and Francisco Diamante who also achieved success in their different spheres, falsified public records of marriage, baptism, etc.

The story would most likely have been known to Elizabethan readers through the account in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, although the murder was so recent, and so memorable, that it is also likely that it was in the living memory of some of the anonymous playwright's acquaintances.

Theatre technique is part of the playwright's creative writing of drama, as a kind of mimesis rather than mere illusion or imitation of life, in that the playwright is able to present a reality to the audience that is different, yet recognisable to that which they usually identify with in their everyday lives.

There was a demand to commemorate serious theatre, with the " Shakespeare Committee " purchasing the playwright's birthplace for the nation demonstrating a recognition of the importance of ' serious drama '.

The two characters, brought into being within the puzzling universe of Stoppard's play by an act of the playwright's creation, have generally interchangeable, yet periodically unique, identities.

Conceived as a sort of Japanese playwright's version of an American musical about American influences on Japan, Pacific Overtures begins its journey to the present day in July 1853.

Sheridan cast a more capable actor for the role of the comic Irishman for its second performance, and it was a smash which immediately established the young playwright's reputation and the favour of fashionable London.

" Williams was a co-founder of the group and a key member of its playwright's wing, and later wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, Brando's greatest early role.

Like the playwright's original work, it is known for its unsentimental realism.

The subtitle of the play ( and of the earlier story ) is " A Prayer for the Wild of Heart That are Kept in Cages "; though that phrase conveys the seriousness of the playwright's chosen topic, its treatment, particularly the elements not present in the original story ( such as the Mummers play-within-a-play and the swan-on-a-lake scenes ), lighten the tone with elements of fantasy.

The Persian Wars would play a large role in the playwright's life and career.

" Since the playwright's wishes were not protected by copyright, Ibsen decided to avoid the danger of being re-written by a lesser dramatist by committing what he called a " barbaric outrage " on his play himself and giving it an alternative ending in which Nora did not leave.

Tom Veal has noted that the early play The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals no familiarity on the playwright's part with Italy other than " a few place names and the scarcely recondite fact that the inhabitants were Roman Catholics.

Merlo, who became Williams ' personal secretary, taking on most of the details of their domestic life, provided a period of happiness and stability as well as a balance to the playwright's frequent bouts with depression and the fear that, like his sister Rose, he would fall into insanity.

Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

Barsacq was a champion for Anouilh and their affiliation was a major factor in the playwright's continued success after the war.

Another aspect of this is that of creating the kind of dialogue that makes the playwright's characters come alive and allows for their development in the course of his dramatization.

Monterey later became the playwright's third wife.

At the playwright's insistence, Garfield was cast as Ralph, the sensitive young son who pled for " a chance to get to first base.

Melchiori ( p. 104 ) points out the similarity of the playwright's language to that of Painter in spite of the plotting differences.

As with many Tennessee Williams plays, the play incorporates elements from the playwright's own life, along with elements from the life of his idol, poet Hart Crane.

Fastolf had died without descendants, making him safe for a playwright's use.

The play's protagonist, Dr Stockmann, represents the playwright's own voice.

Once again the evolution of the sculpture as described in the play can be read as a reflection on the transformation undergone by Rubek himself and even as a statement on the progression Ibsen's own plays took as many scholars have read this final play ( stated by Ibsen himself to be an ' epilogue ') as the playwright's reflection on his own work as an artist.

Among his later novels may be mentioned two further " tragic " tales: Madcap Violet ( 1876 ) and Macleod of Dare ( 1879 ); Sunrise ( 1881 ) a novel of international political intrigue ; Shandon Bells ( 1883 ) largely set in Ireland ; Yolande ( 1883 ) which in part deals with drug addiction ; Judith Shakespeare ( 1884 ) a historical novel featuring the playwright's daughter ; and The New Prince Fortunatus ( 1890 ) a novel of London theatrical life.

The book reveals much about this playwright's relationship to director John Dexter ( who had been the earliest, near-familial interpreter of Wesker's works ), to criticism, to casting, and to the ephemeral process of collaboration through which the text of any play must pass.

Helion also hoped that America's mastery of technology and industrial efficiency would be accompanied by the production of new and beautiful art works.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

The matter of sympathy of the academic professors for art objectives also must be taken into account.

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

In this line, Mohamed Temam, Abdelkhader Houamel have also returned through this art, scenes from the history of the country, the habits and customs of the past and the country life.

The magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

The role of fine art has been to simultaneously express values of the current culture while also offering criticism, balance, or alternatives to any such values that are proving no longer useful.

Revolutions of style have also abruptly changed the art of a culture.

But Impressionism, and through it almost all of 20th century art, is also firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

Agate is also still used today for decorative displays, cabochons, beads, carvings and Intarsia art as well as face-polished and tumble-polished specimens of varying size and origin.

Although game reports and social reactions are common parts of many A & E contributions, it has also, over the years, become a testing ground for new ideas on the development of the RPG as a genre and an art form.

Moreover, Carnegie urged other wealthy people to contributed to society in the form of parks, works of art, libraries and other endeavors that improved the community, and contributed to the “ lasting good ” Carnegie also held a strong opinion against inherited wealth.

He was greatly attached to his art ; and upon his young charge he looked as one who was to perpetuate, not only the family name, but also the family profession.

A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as the secret of the art.

Thither he retired in 1798, and there he continued for about a year, principally employed in painting, of which art also he had some knowledge.

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

Aesthetics ( also spelled æsthetics ) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

Friedrich von Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel have also given lectures on aesthetics as philosophy of art after 1800.

As well as being applied to art, aesthetics can also be applied to cultural objects.

Philosophical aesthetics has not only to speak about art and to produce judgments about art works, but has also to give a definition of what art is.