The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

No film version for cinema release has ever been made, however, the 1949 film Train of Events includes a sub-plot featuring an amateur dramatics society performing the last scenes of Richard II.

Another fictitious sub-plot has Henry making Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk so the latter would be of appropriate rank to give away Henry's sister at her supposed wedding to the King of Portugal.

The second title of the piece, The Scourge of Simony, is justified by a sub-plot dealing with the attempts of one Academico to obtain a living from an ignorant country patron, Sir Roderick, who, however, presents it, on the recommendation of his son Amoretto, who has been bribed, to a non-university man Immerito.

Recently, the term " bowl " has been added to other games that have some special note or sub-plot to the actual game, in college or the National Football League.

What initially reads as another of the many modest human dramas that Zweig made his speciality, this small tale actually has a far more panoramic sub-plot, for it is a metaphor of World War I's impact on Viennese life and culture.

The Quintessential Phase has one sub-plot of Zaphod attempting to reach Zarniwoop ( which did occur in Fit the Twelfth, but that version was dismissed during the Tertiary Phase as Zaphod having a " psychotic episode "-another version of events occurs here, in an attempt to interconnect all five series ).

A sub-plot involving Paul Harris and his involvement in a property under consideration for sale to the city-at a price Harris desperately needs to keep himself afloat-also has a prominent place in the film.

Perhaps a fresh idea has occurred to him, or a different image, or a whole new sub-plot.

The first film, Beach Party, has a more adult point of view featuring a romantic sub-plot between Anthropology professor Robert Orville Sutwell ( Robert Cummings ) and his secretary Marianne ( Dorothy Malone ).

Pippin often has a comedy sub-plot during each episode, where she gets up to mischief without Auntie Mabel knowing.

" Duval Smith thought that Thunderball was " an exciting story is skilfully told ", with " a romantic sub-plot ... and the denouement involves great events " He also considered it " the best written since Diamonds Are Forever, four books back.

Although it was billed as a sequel to the film, Phenomenon II is actually a partial-remake of the original film, essentially retelling the original story while adding new characters and introducing a sub-plot involving the NSA.

DVD Talk called " Zero Hour " " a playful episode " with a " funny sub-plot involving an alien plant ", but recognized the episode's contribution to the overall story arc.

Of these, the version by director Gerolamo Lo Savio was filmed on location, and it dropped the Edgar sub-plot and used frequent intertitling to make the plot easier to follow than its Vitagraph predecessor.

Unlike the Induction and the main plot however, there is a recognised source for Shakespeare's sub-plot, first suggested by Alfred Tolman in 1890 ; Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi ( 1551 ), which Shakespeare used either directly or through George Gascoigne's English prose translation Supposes ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ).

A sub-plot in the My Name is Earl " Gospel " episode is also inspired by the case.

A fruitless search for silphium by Romans in the reign of the emperor Vespasian is an amusing sub-plot of the crime novel Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis.

A sub-plot in the book is the illicit affair between the sweet singing but otherwise untalented Hollom, a passed midshipman who never received a lieutenant's commission and is too old to fit in with the young midshipmen who Jack takes aboard in pity, and the pretty wife brought aboard by the sexually impotent gunner, Horner.

Tunberg cut out everything in the book after the crucifixion of Jesus, omitted the sub-plot in which Ben-Hur fakes his death and raises a Jewish army to overthrow the Romans, and altered the manner in which the leperous women are healed ( instead of being healed as Christ carries His cross, the women are healed after accidentally soaking in rainwater stained by the blood of Jesus after the crucifixion ).

For example, Peter Greenaway's film A Zed & Two Noughts featured a sub-plot involving time-lapse photography of decomposing animals and included a composition called " Time-lapse " written for the film by Michael Nyman.

The main plot involving Lisa was pitched by fellow Simpsons writer Ron Hauge, and the sub-plot involving Homer adopting a lobster was conceived by former staff writer Richard Appel.

The book sees Thursday return from the world of fiction to the alternative Swindon that Fforde introduced in The Eyre Affair ; she is accompanied by Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, whose excursion from the world of fiction with Thursday forms the main sub-plot.

Another sub-plot in the firm focuses on Pee Wee's attempt to exact revenge for the Tommy and Billy's " Cherry Forever " practical joke in the first movie in which Pee Wee was abandoned in the Everglades running naked along a deserted road only to be " pulled over " by Officer Jarvis and his partner during an otherwise lonely and uneventful patrol.

This was the first episode of South Park to be rated 18 in the UK for its video / DVD-release, due to the sub-plot in which Mr. Garrison wants to be sexually molested by his father.

A major sub-plot in the series developed when Miko's mother was kidnapped by the Lugo men and held in uncertain conditions for a number of episodes.

Although this particular sub-plot seems to have only a marginal connection with the main storyline, the recorded voice of a long-deceased John Preston ends the novel on a positive note by exhorting his audience to "... spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion ....", to " push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward ....", to " keep moving on ...".

A major sub-plot of the game is inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time.

Adams even injects a humorous sub-plot.

" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

Dušan Makavejev opened his 1971 satirical film W. R .: Mysteries of the Organism with documentary coverage of Reich and his development of orgone accumulators, combining this with other imagery and a fictional sub-plot in a collage mocking sexual and political authorities.

* In one sub-plot of the Broken Lizard film, Puddle Cruiser, the main characters watch the film believing that Julia Roberts gets naked in it.

While in general faithful to the Dickens storyline, Lean's film omits the Rose Maylie sub-plot altogether.

A sub-plot of the film is the President's reelection campaign.

Throughout the entire film, a sub-plot focuses on a single Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crew from the time of its emergency take-off from Fairchild AFB to receiving orders to enter the Soviet Union and begin destroying cities.

The film also ignores the sub-plot of Book One: The Coming of the Martians, in which the book's perspective shifts to the narrator's brother, who accompanies two women to safety and witnesses the battle between the aliens and the HMS Thunderchild.

A sub-plot would violate the nature of the film, and also increase its length.

The film contains a sub-plot focusing on the gym teacher who everyone loves to hate, Beulah Balbricker.

* A character in a sub-plot in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Breakfast of Champions

* Anthony Trollope's novel The Last Chronicle of Barset contains a sub-plot in which the painter Conway Dalrymple paints the heiress Clara Van Siever as Jael driving a ' nail ' through the head of Sisera.

The Unity of Action-This is the one Unity that Goldsmith does not rigorously follow ; there is the inclusion of the Constance-Hastings eloping sub-plot that distracts from the main narrative of the play.