Before passion plays were formed in christianity, Easter plays represented dramas. ... Therefore, passion plays were created; first in Latin and then in German. ... The cities' people were now wealthy and could hold wonderful plays on public squares. ... Interest in passion plays rose again in the nineteenth century, as Oberammergau was attracting people from all over the world to their plays. ... They wrote the words Inri on the very top of the cross (which means: The King of Jews). ...

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Measure for Measure a Problem Play Measure for Measure is considered to be a dark play because it partly focuses on evil. ... This subject was appropriate in 1604 when Shakespeare wrote Measure for Measure. ... The Duke remedies the play by marrying everybody off. Thus the play yields a satisfactory outcome in the terms of Christian moral doctrine. ... Also the play's comic sub-plot both reinforces the claustrophobic atmosphere and relieves it. ...

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"Shakespeare wrote his first play in 1592. ... Not many play writes wrote so many different types of plays in so short a time, but Shakespeare was certainly not like any other English play write (Timeline). ... Shakespeare wrote many plays, which were adaptations of earlier plots. ... However, Shakespeare wrote, produced, and sometimes even acted in his own plays. ... After his retirement, he wrote only one play, Henry VIII" (Hazlitt). ...

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This combination strongly influenced his plays and gives them a substantial notion of Russianess. The play Uncle Vanya is placed into a geographical setting of vastness. ... Russian attitudes towards life are noticeable throughout the play and Chekhov conveys most of these, using his characters. ... At one stage of the play, Serebriakov asks: "But where are the others? ... (Page 194) Voinitsky moreover, is in despair, realising, that the Russian country life also ruined the Professor's life: "Everything he wrote or uttered seemed to me the work of a genius. ...

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In 1922 he wrote his first success, Drums in the Night. ... In 1924 he wrote his first professional production Edward II. In 1927 he wrote A manual of Piety. ... In 1930 he wrote The Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahogany. Also during this year he wrote his first "exemplary plays," A Man's Man, which introduced his unorthodox idea of "epic theatre." ...

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Later in the year he saw the play The Rivals playing the lead, Captain Absolute, was the British actor Henry Irving, a person who would play a major role in Bram's life. ... After graduation he assumed a position as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," he also wrote short stories on the side. ... In 1876 Henry Irving returned to Dublin, Stoker went to see Irving in the play Hamlet. ... Irving then returned to London to star in the play The Lyon's Mail. ... About this same time the publishing house of Sampson, Lowe wrote to Stoker expressing interest in a collection of his ...

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Nicolas played the flute and the violin and Justyna played the piano. ... In notes to his pupils Chopin wrote, "Listen to great singers. ... He played music for the love of it. ... "[A] stray note, pointless when considered only on paper, becomes pure poetry when realized on the piano.""21 Chopin wrote for himself, and wrote using common techniques, the musical currency of the period. ... He wrote on the piano as if the instrument he was playing on was a human voice. ...

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Well, Tom Stoppard wrote about this very thing after a long line of writers who have already written such stories with Waiting for Godot being the most famous of them all. ... That is all that they do for the whole play. ... He didn't really care whether or not people understood his work because he wrote it because he wanted to. He wrote the play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead following the essence of the Theatre of the Absurd, with chaos in the play, showing the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach, and based off the essentials of Samuel B...

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Eliot wrote plays throughout the rest of his life. ... Eliot also wrote childrens poems. ... Although Eliot's plays never became well known widely, his goal in writing was that everyone came into the play to seek some sort of goal. ... In 1934, Eliot wrote a pageant for a church. ... This play is short, yet complex. ...

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They responded with "TV programme", "Computer programme"; all of which I wrote on the board. ... I asked the pupils again if they have ever seen a play. ... I asked the three pupils to briefly tell the class the play they saw and where they saw it; after which I explained what a play and a musical was. ... I asked the pupils to tell me what was on the flyer and wrote the responses on the board. ... I wrote their responses in the whiteboard. ...

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He wrote an elegy on the death of Cromwell called Heroic Stanzas. ... He began to write plays for King's Theatre. ... His play Mr. ... His early plays were written in rhymed couplet and his later work in blank verse. ... In 1681, he wrote his first and some say, greatest poem of his career. ...

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His plays explore the psychological world of human passions and emotions. ... Aristophanes, who wrote plays in the style Old Comedy, was a great writer of comic plays. His plays reflected the spirit of Athens at that time. ... He wrote a versatile account of the Peloponnesian War. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ...

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Rossini was apprenticed to a blacksmith but ended up studying music under a master by the name of Angelo Tesei, where he learned to play the horn and sing. By the time he was eighteen he wrote his first opera "La Cambiale di Matrimonio" in Venice. ... Handel wrote over fifty operas, twenty-three oratorios, and numerous church pieces. ... The last selection played by the Grossmont Symphony was "Symphony in D minor" by Cesar Franck. ... Along with the trombone and sousaphone, an oboe was also utilized and the entire strings (violins, cello) section played a major part. ...

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Roger Ebert wrote of the movie, "There are only a handful of movie characters so real that the audience refers to them as touchstones. ... Robert Rossen wrote about the human struggle and made it come alive in his writing of the characters, Fast Eddie Felson and Sarah Packard played by Piper Laurie. Alan Casty wrote of the movie," For as George C. ... Piper Laurie plays a drunk who goes to college on Tuesday and Thursday and drinks the other days. ... Robert Rossen also co-wrote the screenplay and we can feel some of the pain that he was going through during this time in his life. ...

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What was it like for his when he was a kid and why did he write what he wrote? ... He wrote his first stories there, including sections of various works like "The Red Pony" and "Tortilla Flat". ... In 1936, "Of Mice and Men" whick was set around Soledad, was produced as a novel and then as a play. ... For Los Gatos, Steinbeck wrote, "The vilification of me out here for the large land owners and bankers is pretty bad. ... How he grew up and what happened to him in the Salinas, I hope, helps you understand why he wrote what he wrote. ...

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He also wrote three important works while in France. ... Then, he wrote The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985). ... Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life. ... The play, Blues for Mr. ... Mainly his plays are thesis plays-talky, over-written and cliché dialogue and some stereotypes, preachy and argumentative. ...

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He wrote his music in order to inspire a deep feeling or hidden emotion. ... He only wrote one opera but its intricate melodies and harmonies set it aside from the rest of the operas at that time. It was a version of a medieval play by Maurice Maeterlinck. ... Of all the musical masterpieces Debussy wrote, the opera was his least favorite, but he still mastered the art and made it his own unique style. ... Debussy wrote many other orchestral pieces including, three movements of Nocturnes - Nuages, Fetes, and Sirenes. ...

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Great people like Sophocles & Aristophanes wrote plays that are famous even today. These plays were performed in the theatre. ... He wrote a versatile account of the Peloponnesian War. ... Aristophanes, who wrote plays in the style Old Comedy, was a great writer of comic plays. His plays reflected the spirit of Athens at that time. ...

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Some major figures that played a very important part in the Harlem Renaissance are Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, and Jacob Lawrence. ... The song was very controversial because nobody wrote songs about the political and social issues of that time. ... DuBois, who also wrote The Souls of Black Folk, young Langston's favorite book. ... He wrote of their daily lives in America's cities, of their anger and their loves. ... When Hughes died in 1967, a jazz band played at his funeral. ...

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Owen had an anti war attitude as he wrote poems about the truth at war. ... Wilfred Owen saw this and wrote a poem to criticise Pope. Owen wrote poetry to show is experience of war, he also wanted to obliterate the image of war that was created by Pope. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Owen makes the poem memorable by using alliteration "play and pleasure" this makes the poem flow. ...

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Owen had an anti war attitude as he wrote poems about the truth at war. ... Wilfred Owen saw this and wrote a poem to criticise Pope. Owen wrote poetry to show is experience of war, he also wanted to obliterate the image of war that was created by Pope. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Owen makes the poem memorable by using alliteration "play and pleasure" this makes the poem flow. ...

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He said that he got his early music lessons from some Franciscan friar who also taught him how to play a guitar. He also learned the art of playing a violin. ... The trios and the dances that he wrote for the court during 1661 were right away published. ... He was strongly influenced by French overture and wrote about 4 of them for Ballet d'Alcidiane. ... The intermedes which were made by Lully started to appear often in the plays of Moliere. ...

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He wrote it while working in the Poodle Dog Café. ... That night, he played his only song. ... He wrote the piece "Reminiscing in Tempo- for her (Turkell 95). ... One of the venues included playing at Swampy River. ... Also during this time, he wrote four more suites: "Far East Suite-, "Latin America Suite-, "Afro-Eurasian Eclipse- and "Goutelas Suite-. ...

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William Shakespeare wrote many plays that contain signs of superstition. Some of his best work was displayed in the popular play "Julius Caesar". ... There are yet more ghost that were seen in the play. ... There were more predictions that were in the play. ... In conclusion, Shakespeare wrote this play with superstition and paranormal events so that he could reach his fans at a different level. ...

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He began with his oldest Maria, teaching her to play the piano. ... He could literally hear music and return home and write exactly what was played earlier. ... The tour began in Munich and Vienna where a series of concerts were played. ... Summer of 1773 Wolfgang traveled to Vienna; there he wrote a set of string quartets and on his return, wrote a group of symphonies including his two earliest, nos.25 in g Minor and 29 in A. ... He wrote 15 piano concertos before the end of 1786. ...

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