Such plot devices were used in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( 1601 ), The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser in 1590, and James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage ( 1633 ).

Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

The plot was based on the August 1933 short story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

In The Night of the Generals ( 1967 ), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

A Night of Serious Drinking ( 1938 ) is an allegorical novel by the French surrealist writer René Daumal detailing what is ostensibly an extremely simple plot in which the narrator overly imbibes alcohol ; what unfolds however is a novel which explores the extremities of heaven and hell.

Other films, such as On Deadly Ground and 30 Days of Night, refer to the pipeline or use it as a plot device.

" Heer Halewijn ", a medieval Dutch folk ballad, and a story found in Night 16 of The Arabian Nights, also share notable plot details with the Bluebeard tale.

* Night Watch, a 1989 UNACO novel by Alastair MacNeill whose plot centres on the theft of Rembrandt's Night Watch

" Osric, in Hamlet has a great deal of the fop's affected manner, and much of the plot of Twelfth Night revolves around tricking the puritan Malvolio into dressing as a fop.

The story follows a plot by a secret brotherhood, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, to overthrow the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and install a puppet king, under the control of the Supreme Grand Master.

* Devil's Night is used as a plot device in the 2007 Canadian horror film Left for Dead.

He claims as his own invention the story of Apolonius and Silla, the second in the collection, from which Shakespeare took the plot of Twelfth Night.

" Night of the Living Dead " is titled after the 1969 horror film of the same name, and the song's lyrics address the zombie plot of the film: " You think you're a zombie, you think it's a scene / from some monster magazine / Open your eyes too late / This ain't no fantasy boy ".

A planned episode title, " The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova ," was reused as " The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ," though the episodes did not share a plot.

Similar to Amazing Stories, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, Tales From The Crypt, and Lee Martin's The Midnight Hour, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist.

The plot of Elizabeth Peters's first Vicky Bliss mystery novel, " Borrower of the Night " ( 1973 ) centers around the search for a missing Riemenschneider sculpture.

* The Night Watch is a major plot device in the eponymous 1995 film, Night Watch.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

So the plot creaks, the sets are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy and not very well connected with what the singers were doing.

And though it was logical that a man who could plot mass murder would not hesitate to speak an untruth, still it was difficult to understand why Spencer spoke only for Cromwell.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

* The illegitimate descendant of a Bulgarian prince named Aron formed a plot in 1107 to murder Alexios as he was encamped near Thessalonica.

A search for the author of the publications uncovered the whole plot, yet Aron was only banished due to his connection of the royal line of Bulgaria, whose blood also flowed in the veins of the empress Irene.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

Abd al-Rahman was apparently sagacious enough to expect such a plot.

The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

Promotional drawings were created and published in Variety during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot.

Gromley said he was told the details of the bomb plot by Louis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service.

The report said the subsequent US investigation into the plot " revealed that it was masterminded by a Saudi terrorist living in Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden ".

The main plot from Rear Window was used for Body Double, while it also used elements of Vertigo.

Because of the Hays Code, lesbianism after 1930 was absent from most films, even those adapted with overt lesbian characters or plot devices.

Artistic Director Krist ) and Director Emma Routledge ) adapted the scripts into a 4 part series featuring characters and plot points from the first 25 comics along with the company.

* Oxfordian theory is central to the plot of Sarah Smith's 2003 novel Chasing Shakespeares, which she also adapted into a play.

In the creation of an opera or ballet, a scenario is often developed initially to indicate how the original source, if any, is to be adapted and to summarize the aspects of character, staging, plot, etc.

Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas ( 1971 ), a children's storybook by Russell Hoban later adapted into a television special by Jim Henson, also contains similar plot themes.

The novel was adapted, with some plot and character changes, into the screenplay for a 1994 film of the same name starring Donald Sutherland.

At the height of neorealism, in 1948, Visconti adapted I Malavoglia, a novel by Giovanni Verga, written at the height of the 19th century realist verismo movement ( in many ways the basis for neorealism, which is therefore sometimes referred to as neoverismo ), bringing the story to a modern setting, which resulted in remarkably little change in either the plot or the tone.

In 2009, ABC Family adapted the play for a new television situation comedy entitled 10 Things I Hate About You, stretching out and modernising the plot of the 1999 film.

The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The plot was later adapted into a four-part Dark Horse Comics series by Lee Marrs, published monthly from December 1994 to March 1995.

There are clear echoes of the Wandering Jew in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, whose plot line is adapted from a story by Heinrich Heine in which the Dutchman is referred to as ' the Wandering Jew of the ocean ', and his final opera Parsifal features a woman called Kundry who is in some ways a female version of the Wandering Jew.

He envisioned a three-dimensional cube world as the setting and adapted part of the film's plot, E. T.

* The plot idea of astronauts thinking they had crashed on an unknown planet, only to discover that in fact they had been on Earth all along, would be adapted by Rod Serling in his work on the initial screenplay of Planet of The Apes.

The strip's story continuity was written by Walter B. Gibson, with plot lines adapted from the Shadow pulps, and the strip was illustrated by Vernon Greene.

The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of Apollonius of Tyre — Eustathius ' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( particularly in Act III ).

The screenplay was adapted by John Michael Hayes and Charles Schnee from the 1935 novel, but the plot of the film bears only a superficial resemblance to the novel.

Carousel was also revolutionary for its time — adapted from Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom, it was one of the first musicals to contain a tragic plot ; it also contained an extended ballet that was crucial to the plot, and several extended musical scenes containing both sung and spoken material, as well as dance.

* Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, is based on the play, although, as with most operas adapted from the theatre, there are significant differences as to characters and plot.

The plot is adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In the second season of the Magic School Bus television series, the book was loosely adapted into the episode " Wet All Over ," which featured a far greater amount of plot.

The game received considerable acclaim for its brightly colored graphics, expansive plot, " Ring Command " menu system, innovative real-time battle system, modified Active Time Battle meter adapted for real-time action, its innovative cooperative multiplayer gameplay, where the second or third players could drop in and out of the game at any time rather than players having to join the game at the same time, the customizable AI settings for computer-controlled allies, and the acclaimed soundtrack by Hiroki Kikuta.

In 2000, a Season 4 episode of Dawson's Creek entitled " Two Gentlemen of Capeside " loosely adapted the plot of the play.

The stories were unrelated to the video games until issue 32 of the Tomb Raider series, which adapted Angel of Darknesss plot.