Traditional myth provided the subject matter but the dramatist was meant to be innovative so as to sustain interest, which led to novel characterization of heroic figures and to use of the mythical past to talk about present issues.

Traditional scholars say that the biographies of other contemporary figures, such as King James or the Earl of Essex, fit the play just as closely if not more so.

The Soong Sisters ( Traditional Chinese: 宋家姐妹, pinyin: Sòngjiā Jiěmèi, or 宋氏三姐妹 ) were three Hainan Chinese women who were, along with their husbands, amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.

Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC, with figures of Romulus and Remus added in the 15th century by Antonio Pollaiuolo.

Traditional North-coast Peruvian ceramic art uses a limited palette, relying primarily on red and white ; fineline painting, fully modeled clay, veristic figures, and stirrup spouts.

Traditional art forms, such as ceramics and calligraphy, along with mythological figures, language, large feature photographs and illustrations speak to a fascinating range of shared historical memories that connect Koreans at home and abroad.

'" Critics criticized the use of the disputed figures by conservative organizations ; for example, The Traditional Values Coalition used the article to urge the Centers for Disease Control to cut down on its AIDS funding.

Traditional arts of the Aleuts include hunting, weapon-making, building of baidarkas ( special hunting boats ), weaving, figurine making, clothing, carving, and mask making.

Traditional black metal bands usually use high-pitched and raspy vocals which include shrieking, screaming and snarling.

Traditional ceramic raw materials include clay minerals such as kaolinite, whereas more recent materials include aluminium oxide, more commonly known as alumina.

Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".

Traditional Chinese domino games include Tien Gow, Pai Gow, Che Deng, and others.

Traditional accounts of the author's life are found in many commentaries and include details such as these: He was born on Salamis Island around 484 BC, the son of Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens.

* Traditional / Basic: Must include a log book of some sort.

Traditional British May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and celebrations involving a Maypole.

Traditional practices of some tribes include the use of sacred herbs such as tobacco, sweetgrass or sage.

Traditional methods of separation include distillation, crystallization, and solvent extraction.

Traditional principles of property rights include:

Traditional property rights do not include:

Traditional Indian dishes sometimes include the use of decorative silver foil known as vark, and in various cultures, silver dragée are used to decorate cakes, cookies, and other dessert items.

Traditional dances include the parata, which is a lighthearted re-enactment of the 1565 victory of the Knights over the Turks, and an 18th century court dance known as il-Maltija.

Traditional ski show acts include pyramids, ski doubles, freestyle jumping, and swivel skiing.

Traditional black-tie Lowland dress is a variant of the normal black tie that includes tartan trews rather than the usual trousers and may include a suitable kilt jacket instead of the dinner jacket.

Traditional national and cultural symbols of the Turkic peoples include wolves in Turkic mythology and tradition ; as well as the color blue, iron, and fire.

Traditional, white-skinned, egg-shaped cultivars include ' Casper ' and ' Easter Egg '.

" Traditional " topics include the influence of elections on the choice of economic policy, determinants of electoral outcomes, the political business cycles, central-bank independence, redistributive conflicts in fiscal policy, and the politics of delayed reforms in developing countries and of excessive deficits.

Traditional approaches to improving performance in processor architectures include breaking up instructions into sub-steps so that instructions can be executed partially at the same time ( pipelining ), dispatching individual instructions to be executed completely independently in different parts of the processor ( superscalar architectures ), and even executing instructions in an order different from the program ( out-of-order execution ).

Traditional techniques include lost-wax casting, plaster mold casting and sand casting.

Traditional Mozambican exports include cashews, shrimp, fish, copra, sugar, cotton, tea, and citrus fruits.

Traditional biscuits include Traou Mad, which is a full-fat butter biscuit, similar to Scottish shortbread.

Traditional nonfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, and from the latter tofu and tofu skin.

Traditional European patterns for men's shirts and women's chemises take this approach.

Traditional orthogonal grid patterns generally have greater street frequencies than discontinuous patterns.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 include personalization features that learn a user's writing patterns and / or vocabulary for English, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified and Korean.

Traditional music usually begins with slow and steady beats that grow gradually faster and more emphatic, while various flourishes like drum and rattle tremolos, shouts and accented patterns add variety and signal changes in performance for singers and dancers.

The Traditional Chinese concept of the Lungs includes the function of protecting the body from colds, and menthol is thought to cool the Lungs and purge heat toxins caused by wind-heat invasion ( one of the patterns of common cold ).

Traditional men's aloha shirts manufactured for local Hawaiian residents are usually adorned with traditional Hawaiian quilt designs, tapa designs, and simple floral patterns in more muted colors.

Traditional " activation studies " focus on determining distributed patterns of brain activity associated with specific tasks.

Traditional kente cloth is woven in complex patterns of bright, narrow strips.

Boxer shorts are available in white and solid colors including pastels, and come in a variety of patterns and prints as well ; Traditional patterns include " geometrics " ( small repeating geometric designs ), plaids and vertical stripes.

Traditional jinbei are made from hemp or cotton and are dyed a uniform color, often indigo, blue or green ( though modern jinbei frequently have prints ranging from simple textures or lines to complicated and colorful floral patterns ).

Traditional Fair Isle patterns have a limited palette of five or so colours, use only two colours per row, are worked in the round, and limit the length of a run of any particular colour.

Traditional Fair Isle patterns normally had no more than two or three consecutive stitches of any given colour, because they were stranded, and too many consecutive stitches of one colour means a very long strand of the other, quite easy to catch with a finger or button.

Royal Crown Derby also continue to produce patterns in the Imari style, distinguished for its rich colours and intricate gilding, including the dinnerware ranges Old Imari, Traditional Imari, Red Aves, Blue Mikado ( designed by Thomas Amos Reed ), and Olde Avesbury.