query: main_subject parade's end
supports: The Childers Reforms of 1881 restructured the infantry regiments of the British Army. The reforms were undertaken by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers in 1881, and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell Reforms. The Dionysia was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies. It was the second-most important festival after the Panathenaia. The Dionysia actually consisted of two related festivals, the Rural Dionysia and the City Dionysia, which took place in different parts of the year. They were also an essential part of the Dionysian Mysteries. Infantry is the general branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot. As the troops who engage with the enemy in close-ranged combat, infantry units bear the largest brunt of warfare and typically suffer the greatest number of casualties during a military campaign. Historically, as the oldest branch of the combat arms, the infantry are the tip of the spear of a modern army, and continually undergo training that is typically more physically demanding and psychologically stressful than that of any other branch of the combat arms. Common representations of infantry fighting forces include the U.S. Army Infantry Branch, U.S. Marine Corps Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, Infantry of the British Army, and the Royal Australian Corps of Infantry. The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch", an archaic spelling of "Welsh") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1969. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot and 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Welsh Regiment, which it was known as until 1920 when it was renamed the Welch Regiment. In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the South Wales Borderers to form the Royal Regiment of Wales.  Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque. They featured choruses of satyrs, were based on Greek mythology, and were rife with mock drunkenness, brazen sexuality (including phallic props), pranks, sight gags, and general merriment. The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. It was formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of the South Wales Borderers and the Welch Regiment. The 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) had a short existence in military terms, just over 36 years. Within two months of amalgamation, the battalion was one of the first units to be deployed to Northern Ireland. The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom. The force was initially administered by the War Office from London, which in 1964 was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence. The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff. Parade 's End is a tetralogy ( four related novels ) by the English novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928 . It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in the First World War , in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment , a life vividly depicted in the novels . In December 2010 , John N. Gray hailed the work as `` possibly the greatest 20th - century novel in English '' and Mary Gordon labelled it as `` quite simply , the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel '' . The work is a complex tale written in a modernist style ( `` it is as modern and modernist as they come '' ) , does not concentrate on detailing the experience of war . Robie Macauley , in his introduction to the Borzoi edition of 1950 , described it as `` by no means a simple warning as to what modern warfare is like ... ( but ) something complex and baffling ( to many contemporary readers ) . There was a love story with no passionate scenes ; there were trenches but no battles ; there was a tragedy without a denouement . '' The novel is about the psychological result of the war on the participants and on society . In his introduction to the third novel , A Man Could Stand Up -- , Ford wrote , `` This is what the late war was like : this is how modern fighting of the organized , scientific type affects the mind '' . The English Review was an English-language literary magazine published in London from 1908 to 1937. At its peak, the journal published some of the leading writers of its day. The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years. It first came into existence, as the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1689. Based at Brecon the regiment recruited from the border counties of Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Brecknockshire, but was not called the South Wales Borderers until the Childers Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in a great many conflicts, including the American Revolutionary War, various conflicts in India, the Zulu War, Second Boer War, and World War I and World War II. In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales. Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer; 17 December 1873  26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, "The English Review" and "The Transatlantic Review", were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. A tetralogy (from Greek - "", "four" and - "-logia", "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works. The name comes from the Attic theater, in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedies followed by a satyr play, all by one author, to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia as part of a competition.
candidates: bear border city english english literature existence god greek mythology india london theater united kingdom war world war i
answer: world war i