Boethian influence can be found nearly everywhere in Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, e. g. in Troilus and Criseyde, The Knight's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Parson's Tale and The Tale of Melibee, in the character of Lady Nature in The Parliament of Fowls and some of the shorter poems, such as Truth, The Former Age and Lak of Stedfastnesse.

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

The elf is occasionally portrayed in a positive light, such as the Queen of Elphame in the ballad Thomas the Rhymer, but many examples exist of elves of sinister character, frequently bent on rape and murder, as in the Tale of Childe Rowland, or the ballad Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, in which the Elf-Knight bears away Isabel to murder her.

The poetry, romantic adventures and character of Lord Byron, characterised by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as ' mad, bad and dangerous to know ' were another inspiration for the Gothic, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero.

His detractors, among them Henry James, deplored his arbitrary word changes such as " would have " for " should have " in the speech at Lady Macbeth's death, and also his " neurasthenic " and " finicky " approach to the character.

* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

Barer writes that several early Saint stories were rewritten from non-Saint stories, including the novel She Was a Lady, which appeared in magazine form featuring a different lead character.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

He came to believe that Leigh's interpretation, in which Lady Macbeth uses her sexual allure to keep Macbeth enthralled, " made more sense [...] than the usual battle-axe " portrayal of the character.

His leading role in Moran of the Lady Letty was of a typical Douglas Fairbanks nature, however to capitalize on Valentino's bankability, his character was given a Spanish name and ancestry.

Anne of Cleves is the main character of My Lady of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes.

Margaret is also a major character in The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel ( The Cousins ' War ) by Phillipa Gregory.

Whitehead has said in an interview that Jimi Hendrix's " Foxy Lady " was an inspiration for the character.

In a review of the Grampa-centric episode " Lady Bouvier's Lover ", Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict said that he is " never terribly interested " in episodes that revolve around Grampa, because he believes Grampa is " great as a background character, but less so when he takes center stage.

Controversy over the historical authenticity of Juan Diego was stirred in 1996 by Father Guillermo Schulenburg, a longtime abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who called Juan Diego a mythical character.

* In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ( 1992 ), Brenda Fricker's " Pigeon Lady " character claims to have heard Basie in Carnegie Hall.

The character of Lady Margaret, portrayed by Marigold Sharman, appears in eight episodes of the BBC miniseries Shadow of the Tower, opposite James Maxwell as her son Henry VII.

In 1959, Hiroshi Inagaki wrote and directed a Japanese version, Aru kengo no shogai ( Life of an Expert Swordsman or Samurai Saga ), setting the story in 17th century Shogunate Japan and starring Toshirō Mifune as the Cyrano character " Heihachiro Komaki " and Yoko Tsukasa as the Roxanne character " Lady Ochii ".

In more recent times, it was replicated by Robert Downey Jr. in his lead role as Charles Chaplin in the 1992 Chaplin, Johnny Depp's character in the 1993 film Benny and Joon, Grampa Simpson in the 1994 episode of The Simpsons entitled " Lady Bouvier's Lover " and by Amy Adams ' character in The Muppets.

The fate of a fourth member of the race, Time Lady Romanadvoratrelundar ( Romana ), a former companion of the Doctor, is unknown, as when the character last appeared in the television series she was residing in a parallel dimension.

Landscape architect Noakes enters, shortly accompanied by Captain Brice and Lady Croom, who then proceed to discuss the proposed modifications to the gardens, with Thomasina drawing a picture of an imaginary hermit ( in the biblical style of John the Baptist ) onto Mr. Noakes's picture of the garden ( with its fantasy hermitage ) as he sees it in the future.

" As examples Millington mentions " Rusalka ( 1983 ), with its Edwardian nursery setting and Freudian undertones, and Hänsel und Gretel ( 1987 ), its dream pantomime peopled by fantasy figures from the children's imagination ... Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( 1987 ) and Wozzeck ( 1990 ) exemplified an approach to production in which grotesque caricature jostles with forceful emotional engagement ".

Although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures such as The Delta Force and Invasion U. S. A., and even the vigilante thriller Exterminator 2 ( the sequel to 1980 ’ s The Exterminator ), Cannon ’ s output was actually far more varied, with musical and comedy films like Breakin ’, Breakin ’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Last American Virgin, and the U. S. release of The Apple ; period romance pictures like Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1981 ), Bolero, and Mata Hari ( 1985 ); science fiction and fantasy films like Hercules, Lifeforce and The Barbarians ; as well as serious pictures like John Cassavetes ’ Love Streams, Zeffirelli ’ s Otello ( a film version of the Verdi opera ), Norman Mailer ’ s Tough Guys Don ’ t Dance, Andrei Konchalovsky ’ s Runaway Train, and Shy People ; and action / adventure films such as the 3-D Treasure of the Four Crowns, King Solomon ’ s Mines, Cobra and American Ninja.

In These Charming People, for instance, Arlen wrote tales which included elements of fantasy and horror, in particular " The Ancient Sin " and " The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage ".

Lady Macbeth then personifies all mothers of early modern England who were condemned for Lady Macbeth ’ s fantasy of infanticide.

Lady Macbeth ’ s fantasy, Chamberlain argues, is not struggling to be a man, but rather struggling with the condemnation of being a bad mother that was common during that time.

Talona (), ( The Lady of Poison, Mistress of Disease and Mother of All Plagues ) is the fictional goddess of poison and disease in the Forgotten Realms universe of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Lady in the Water is a 2006 American mystery fantasy film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Also seen in Michele Lang's Lady Lazarus series of urban historical fantasy novels ( Tor 2010 )

She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller / fantasy film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Novels followed, beginning with William Waste ( 1947 ), The Lady in the Tower ( 1955 ), A girl among poets ( 1957 ), then a gothic fantasy, Bezill ( 1962 ), then Light Over Water ( 1963 ), in which a journalist researches into the world of the occult.

Kampanerang Kuba ( literally Hunchbacked Lady Bell-ringer ) was a fantasy soap opera television series broadcast by ABS-CBN in the Philippines.

Richard A. Lupoff praised Our Lady of Darkness as " one of the scariest, most original, and most damnably convincing fantasy notions I've ever come across.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

Byron features, under the codename of ' Lord Ruthven ', in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel: Glenarvon ( 1816 ).

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing up Baby.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym " A Lady ".

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

* Victoria, Lady Wotton – Lord Henry's wife, who only appears once in the novel.

* 1021 – Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes her Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji.

* November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the case of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

* The Lady of the Camellias was a novel about a courtesan by French author Alexandre Dumas, fils that was turned into the opera La Traviata by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

An early inkling of changing attitudes came in 1960, when the government of the day tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Penguin Books for obscenity, for publishing the D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which had been banned since the 1920s for what was considered racy content.

In the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Manon Lescaut is an all-important model and point of comparison for Marguerite's life, loves, and death.

The film Lady of the Tropics ( 1939 ), directed by Jack Conway, with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor is said to be inspired by the novel.

Jane Austen used the pseudonym " A Lady " as the author of her first novel Sense and Sensibility.

She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862.

Constance Kent can be seen in many of the female characters in the novel: the murderess Lady Audley, the tomboyish Alica Audley, the restrained Phobe Marks, the lonely Clara Talboys.

* 1930 Cambridge Festival Theatre a " melodramatized version " of the novel including a " birthday fete and Rustic Ballet, The part of Lady Audley was played by ( Dame ) Flora Robson and the performance was produced by Tyrone Guthrie.

* The museum is mentioned in Book 1, chapter 24 of Henry James's novel " Portrait of a Lady.

Lady of Burlesque ( known in the UK as Striptease Lady ) ( 1943 ) based on the novel The G-String Murders ( 1941 ), by famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper who gets involved in the investigation of murders at a burlesque house.