A third and more minor kind of adaptation has been the conversion of non-English sources into English drama.
The Master shepherd is a rare character in traditional English drama, who can actually recognize a woman when she's disguised as a boy.
This classically English drama has no bearing on the team's prospects of qualifying for Euro 2012.
These forms flourished at the expense of legitimate English drama, which went into a long period of decline.
Her father had a travelling theatre company and translated and adapted several English dramas for the Dutch stage.
The organization's community theater group has presented Greek tragedies as well as English drama.
Wareing created seasons of international European and English drama.
The bride, 26, is a doctoral student studying 16th- and early 17th-century English drama at Columbia.
The Malone Society, devoted to the study of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English drama, was named after him.
His leisure was given to the study of Shakespeare and the early English drama.