In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress tells of a war of independence waged by the Lunar penal colonies, with significant comments from a major character, Professor La Paz, regarding the threat posed by government to individual freedom.

His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.

Gwen Novak is eventually revealed to be Hazel Stone, a character previously featured in Heinlein's The Rolling Stones and who had played a small but important role in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Also appearing are Jubal Harshaw, a major character in Stranger in a Strange Land ; Dr. Galahad, of Time Enough for Love ; and Manuel Garcia O ' Kelly Davis, the first-person voice of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

She appears briefly in Katherine by Anya Seton, as well as in The King's Mistress, by Emma Campion, where she is a friend of the main character, Alice Perrers.

This character is called the Mistress ( which was what K-9 called Romana in the television series ).

Cassandra Peterson is an actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Felicity Kendal, who had become something of a sex symbol with her tomboy character, complete with wellington boots, went on to join Elspet Gray in Solo, and Jane Asher in The Mistress.

It includes references to Taxi Driver, Ms. 45, Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Deathmaster, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, The Light at the End, Death Wish, Convoy, Vampirella, Natural Born Killers, Badlands, Nocturna, Cruising, Vampire Junction, The Addiction, and The Lost Boys, as well as taking its title from a character in the film Dracula AD 1972.

She has appeared as a character in several novels, such as the biographical novels The Devil's Mistress by novelist and occultist J. W. Brodie-Innes, Isobel by Jane Parkhurst, the fantasy novel Night Plague by Graham Masterton, and Noches Paganas: Cuentos Narrados junto al Fuego del Sabbath by Luis G. Abbadie ;

Her motion picture roles include the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and the character Debbie Salt in Scream 2, as well as roles in such critically acclaimed films as Making Mr. Right, JFK, and Mistress.

* Mycroft was the inspiration for the name of a character in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: " Mycroft " a. k. a. Mike, a H. O. L. M. E. S.

Esmerelda " Esme " Weatherwax ( also Granny Weatherwax or Mistress Weatherwax ) is a fictional character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

The cover art features Waits sitting in a go-go dancer's dressing room, with a topless go-go dancer standing nearby who is rumored to be Cassandra Peterson who is famously known for her character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Madonna wrote the book as a character named Mistress Dita, inspired by 1930s film actress Dita Parlo.

* Louise is the primary character in The French Mistress by Susan Holloway Scott

In the comedy-hit movie " She-Man, Mistress of the Universe ", FPJ himself appeared in character ( as Flavio ) and made a memorable cameo appearance to rescue " Pandoy " ( De Leon's character name ) against his enemies.

Cassandra Peterson ( born September 17, 1951 ) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

What followed was Elvira's Movie Macabre, featuring a quick-witted Valley-girl-type character named Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

The Elvira character rapidly evolved from obscure cult figure to a lucrative brandname and " Mistress of all Media ", spawning many products throughout the 1980s and 1990s including Halloween costumes, comic books, action figures, trading cards, pinball machines, Halloween decor, model kits, calendars, perfume and dolls.

* Elvira, Mistress of the Dark ( 1988 ), title character and co-writer.

Still another Phantom Lady-inspired character was The Black Mistress, whose first episode was scripted by former Vampirella writer T. Casey Brennan.

Some, such as Brian Doherty, claim that Robert LeFevre's movement was a basis for Robert A. Heinlein's book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and that LeFevre was the basis for the character Professor Bernardo de la Paz, organizer of the Lunar revolution .< ref >

Mistress encountered legal difficulties as well, though Walker did demo a song he had co-written for the project called " High On the Ride ".

* Appeared in the Ghoultown music video for their song " Mistress of the Dark ".

In addition, Borchardt also made a cameo in the music video for the Leslie and the Ly's song " Zombie Killer " featuring Elvira, Mistress of the Dark on guest vocals.

She was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother from 1937 to 1964 and was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1938.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

Mistress Page ( Julie Hughett ) and Falstaff ( John Rousseau ) in The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged by Pacific Repertory Theatre at the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel, CA, in 1999

The Minoan goddess represented in seals and other remains, whom Greeks called Potnia Thēron ' Mistress of Animals ', many of whose attributes were later also absorbed by Artemis, seems to have been a mother goddess type, for in some representations she suckles the animals that she holds.

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

* Iambic tetrameter ( Andrew Marvell, " To His Coy Mistress "; Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin, Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening )

Kerenyi suggests that the name Ariadne ( derived from, hagne, " pure "), was an euphemistical name given by the Greeks to the nameless " Mistress of the labyrinth " who appears in a Mycenean Greek inscription from Knossos in Crete.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Stranger in a Strange Land was embraced by the hippie counterculture, and libertarians have found inspiration in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

In the expanded second version of the poem, the Sampo is forged by Ilmarinen, a legendary smith, as a task set by the Mistress of Pohjola in return for her daughter's hand.

Chief among them were the comte de Noailles and his wife, the comtesse de Noailles, who had been appointed the Dauphine's Mistress of the Household by Louis XV.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.

She appeared as Mistress Quickly in Orson Welles ' film Chimes at Midnight ( 1965 ) and was directed by Charlie Chaplin in A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, which was one of her final films.

The novel is linked to Heinlein's short story, " They ", by the term, " the Glaroon ", and to his earlier novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by referring to the Moon colonies " Luna City " and " Tycho Under ".

A milestone in vampire literature was Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress ( 1828 ), believed to be the first vampire story published by a woman.

In 1916, " Mistress of Etiquette " Emily Post was commissioned by Collier's magazine to cross the United States on the Lincoln Highway and write about it.