* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

In All's Well That Ends Well Diana appears as a figure in the play and Helena makes multiple allusions to her, such as, " Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly ..." and "... wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian / was both herself and love ..." The Steward also says, "...; Dian no queen of virgins ,/ that

In the Bacchae, he restores the chorus and messenger speech to their traditional role in the tragic plot, and the play appears to be the culmination of a regressive or archaizing tendency in his later works ( for which see Chronology below ).

Bulwer-Lytton's most famous quotation, " the pen is mightier than the sword ", is from his play Richelieu where it appears in the line beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword

Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called the Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Sir John " Jockey " Oldcastle appears as a dissolute companion of the young Henry.

The creation of a supermassive black hole appears to play a key role in actively regulating the growth of galaxies by limiting the total amount of additional matter added.

An unusual rhetorical device, hendiadys, appears in several places in the play.

Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

It may be that the events of 1054 are responsible for the idea, which appears in Shakespeare's play, that Malcolm III was put in power by the English.

As a result, it appears that modafinil exerts its effects by acting as a weak DRI, though it cannot be ruled out that other mechanisms may also be at play.

Laurence Naismith appears as Merlyn in the film version of the musical play Camelot ( based on T. H. White's The Once and Future King ).

* King Philip appears in William Shakespeare's historical play King John.

The duo appears on stage here when they are off-stage in Shakespeare's play, with the exception of a few short scenes in which the dramatic events of both plays coincide.

However, analysis of thousands of high-quality games ( most of them computer-generated ) appears to lead to a reliable conclusion ( pending actual proof if true ) that, on the standard 8-by-8 board, perfect play on both sides results in a draw.

* Sondheim appears in the 1974 PBS television version of the play June Moon by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.

Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

The music for the song, " Lovely Luawana Lady ", was written by John Ringling North, who appears briefly as himself during the discussion about whether the show would play the road rather than have a short 10 week season.

It appears in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations, as the only card game Pip, the book's protagonist, as a child seems to know how to play.

In Harry Podder: Dude Where's My Wand ?, a play by Desert Star Theater in Utah, written by sisters Laura J., Amy K. and Anna M. Lewis, Voldemort appears as evil wizard Voldie.

It appears that the choice between a Long-Leaper and a Single-Leaper tends to affect game play by encouraging " hunkering down " and overdefending pieces, and allowing pieces to spread across the board more, with less attention to bulky blockades.

It appears in the title of the South Korean film Bungee Jumping of Their Own ( Beonjijeompeureul hada 번지점프를 하다 ; 2001 ), although it does not play a large part in the film.

Stanley appears as a character in Simon Gray's 1978 play The Rear Column, which tells the story of the men left behind to wait for Tippu Tib while Stanley went on to relieve Emin Pasha.

Anne appears in three scenes in William Shakespeare's Richard III, in the early scenes when Richard persuades her to marry him, in one brief scene just before Richard's coronation, and towards the end of the play as a ghost.

Plato appears to have considered The Clouds a contributing factor in Socrates ' trial and execution in 399 BCE.

In The Clouds however, the Chorus appears sympathetic at first but emerges as a virtual antagonist by the end of the play.

A copy of " Death in the Clouds " ( printed in the year 5, 000, 000, 000 ) also appears at the end of the episode, with the Doctor claiming that Christie's faint memory of these events inspired the story.

He appears as a character in The Clouds and he is mentioned again in The Frogs.

The issue of corruption is important for two reasons: first, it appears to be the heart of the charge against him, that he corrupted the young by teaching some version of atheism, and second, Socrates says that if he is convicted, it will be because Aristophanes corrupted the minds of his audience when they were young ( with his slapstick mockery of Socrates in his play, " The Clouds ", produced some twenty-four years earlier ).

Chaerephon appears in three of Aristophanes ' comic plays: The Clouds, The Wasps, and The Birds.

The album version of " Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner " appears on the band's third album From Under the Cork Tree, and a demo of " My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon " with rock music instrumentation is featured on the From Under the Cork Tree ( Limited " Black Clouds and Underdogs " Edition ).

Socrates appears in a highly fictionalized guise, as a comic figure and the object of mockery, in The Clouds by Aristophanes.

The date of his death is also unclear, although it appears to have not been earlier than 418, when he finished one of his books, or later than 423.

* Laches: A general who had led a small Athenian force to Sicily in 427 and who had proposed the one year truce in 423, he is mentioned in line 240 and he appears as the good watchdog accused of stealing a Sicilian cheese, suggesting that Cleon was in fact intending to prosecute him for corruption.

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

Shu-Durul ( 2168 – 2154 BC ) appears to have restored some order, however he was unable to prevent the empire eventually collapsing outright from the invasion of barbarian peoples from the Zagros Mountains known as the Gutians.

* Pittacus-the dominant political figure of his time, he was voted supreme power by the political assembly of Mytilene and appears to have governed well ( 590-580 BC ), even allowing Alcaeus and his faction to return home in peace.

His older brother, Antimenidas, appears to have served as a mercenary in the army of Nebuchadnezzar II and probably took part in the conquest of Judaea and the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC.

This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

If the death of Epaminondas in 362 BC freed Athens from fear of Thebes, it appears at the same time to have exposed it to further aggression from Alexander of Pherae, who made a piratical raid on Tinos and other cities of the Cyclades, plundering them, and making slaves of the inhabitants.

After about 125 BC, the eponyous archon, and probably the others, were normally prominent men, and this oligarchic tendency appears to have been produced by a system of election.

By 500 BC, Ionia appears to have been ripe for rebellion against these Persian clients.

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

In about 11 BC, the Roman Army appears to have stationed a small unit in what is presently the historical centre of the town.

For example, some Byzantine coins of the 1st century BC and later show the head of Artemis with bow and quiver, and feature a crescent with what appears to be a six-rayed star on the reverse.

An historical reference to the town appears in the Amarna Letters ( c. 1400 BC ) when the King of Jerusalem appeals to his overlord, the King of Egypt, for help in retaking " Bit-Lahmi " in the wake of disturbances by the Apiru.

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

The best known image appears on the Gundestrup cauldron found on Jutland, dating to the 1st century BC, thought to depict Celtic subject matter though usually regarded as of Thracian workmanship.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

740 BC, appears to refer to a text of the Iliad ; likewise, illustrations seemingly inspired by the Polyphemus episode in the Odyssey are found on Samos, Mykonos and in Italy, dating from the first quarter of the seventh century BC.

He was a contemporary of Ibrium of Ebla who appears to have lived in the late 25th or early 24th century BC, according to the king list.

It appears that colonisation took place by sea sometime before 6500 BC.

Jonah son of Amittai appears in 2 Kings as a prophet from Gath-hepher ( a few miles north of Nazareth ) active during the reign of Jeroboam II ( c. 786-746 BC ), where he predicts that Jeroboam will recover certain lost territories.

It appears to have been invented by the Hittites in about 1200 BC, beginning the Iron Age.

He first appears in history in 40 BC, when he was employed by Octavian in arranging his marriage with Scribonia, and afterwards in assisting to negotiate the treaty of Brundisium and the reconciliation with Mark Antony.

There is no large body of evidence to show that Assyrian monarchs built at all extensively in Nineveh during the 2nd millennium BC ; it appears to have been originally an " Assyrian provincial town ".

Epic poetry, from the Indian Vedas ( 1700 – 1200 BC ) and Zoroaster's Gathas to the Odyssey ( 800 – 675 BC ), appears to have been composed in poetic form to aid memorization and oral transmission, in prehistoric and ancient societies.