Sentence examples for play derived from inspiring English sources

Quite different was the passion play, derived mainly from early Islamic lore and assembled as a sequence of tragedies representing Shīʿite martyrdom.

She recorded some intense and moving songs, -- including "Four Women," and "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," based on a play derived from Hansberry's unfinished writings -- and began dressing her sidemen in dashikis.

If Anne Frank has been made into what we nowadays call an "icon," it is because of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play derived from the diary — a play that rapidly achieved worldwide popularity, and framed the legend even the newest generation has come to believe in.

If the situation is from a play derived from a former Noh drama and uses the full hayashi, a listener notices first that the flute is not in the same tonality as the samisen, nor is it playing the same tune.

In that sense, the play derives from my own experience".

Shakespeare's anti-Semitism, Jacobson insists, is simply a category error; the morality in his play derives from his villain's religion.

Linda Powell brings stature but insufficient grandeur to this daunting task, and most of the dramatic power of the play derives from its narrators, Maria Radman and, in particular, Larry Gleason.

Sophocles' play derives its horrible excitement from a relentless exposition of its protagonist's fall from grace — and from the fact that his confidence and his talents are what prevented him from seeing the looming disaster.

This is the first instance in which the setting of a play derives entirely from the ideas of the director and the designer rather than from tradition or from direct evidence in the text of the play itself.

The play derives its plot from Giambattista Giraldi's De gli Hecatommithi (1565), which Shakespeare appears to have known in the Italian original; it was available to him in French but had not been translated into English.

But, while the title of Churchill's new play derives from the book of Job and raises the question of whether our planet's decline is manmade rather than divinely ordained, I find Mrs Jarrett's speeches less effective as they go along.