Sentence examples for play anticipated from inspiring English sources

Michael Billington pointed out the way the play anticipated Strindberg's Miss Julie and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.

In a year when women dramatists made all the running, Churchill's play anticipated Lucy Kirkwood's The Children, also directed at the Court by James Macdonald and also featuring Deborah Findlay, in its extraordinary mix of the diurnal and the dystopian.

"The apocalypse the play anticipates in its darker moments is both metaphoric and real.

"He will look to change the play, anticipate the blitz or a coverage blitz".

"The key for them is their ability to read the play, anticipate and then create turnovers," Madden said.

He is also excellent in deep coverage, where he can read the play, anticipate the throw, and make a leaping interception.

What strikes one now is how uncannily the play anticipates Look Back In Anger in its combination of the sex and class war and its portrait of marriage as a violent battleground.

Set in 1828 and written in 1936, the year O'Neill himself won the Nobel Prize, the play anticipates the pipe dreams of "The Iceman Cometh" and the parental feuds of "Long Day's Journey Into Night"; it was the only completed work in a projected eleven-play cycle.