He met with considerable success with dramatizations of a number of his novels, and he collaborated with Émile Augier on several plays, including the famous Gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1854; "Son-in-Law of Monsieur Poirier"), which advocated the fusion of the new prosperous middle class and the dispossessed nobility.
The multitalented actor, who was knighted in 1960, also wrote dramatizations (The Brothers Karamazov and Great Expectations) and a film script (The Horse's Mouth) and coauthored the play Yahoo (1976).
Many plays first staged as jingxi are dramatizations of the war novel Sanguo zhi yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written in the 14th century by Lo Guanzhong.
Typical of a number of Noh plays that are dramatizations of Chinese history and legends is the 15th-century Yōkihi by Komparu Zenchiku, based on the 9th-century narrative poem Chang hen ge ("The Song of Everlasting Sorrow") by Bai Juyi.
In modern revivals of ancient Greek plays, masks have occasionally been employed, and such highly symbolic plays as Die versunkene Glocke (The Sunken Bell; 1897) by German writer Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 1946) and dramatizations of Alice in Wonderland have required masks for the performers of grotesque or animal figures.
Among the various dramatizations of Takeda Shingen's life is the film Kagemusha ("The Shadow Warrior") by Japanese director Kurosawa Akira, which was released in 1980.
Living Newspaper, theatrical production consisting of dramatizations of current events, social problems, and controversial issues, with appropriate suggestions for improvement.
Thus, the authors of these dramas gave their audience not a mass communal experience, as the Greek dramatists had done, but rather many small and intimate dramatizations of the Bible story.
But most eagerly read were the novels of André Malraux, vigorous dramatizations of the heroism and glamour of revolutionary fraternity.
It's one of the most ingenious dramatizations of memory and the passage of time since the early films of Alain Resnais (such as "Last Year at Marienbad").
The directors and the screenwriter, David Seltzer, brilliantly blend archival footage with their dramatizations; in the process, they tease out some fascinating notions regarding the very nature of documentary filmmaking and show both why the original program had such an impact back then and which kinds of great changes in society this seminal broadcast may well have sparked.
