In 1828, an article published in a Hagerstown, Maryland, newspaper briefly describes a young girl who's drawn away from her daily chores to play a familiar game with her friends.

In the second scene of the play, King Duncan describes the brave manner in which Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo bravely led his army against invaders, fighting side by side.

In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary, his definition of " pall mall " clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: " A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring ".

The gamemaster prepares the game session for the players and the characters they play ( known as player characters or PCs ), describes the events taking place and decides on the outcomes of players ' decisions.

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, published about 1749, describes a visit to Hamlet by Tom Jones and Mr Partridge, with similarities to the " play within a play ".

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

In section one of The Communist Manifesto Marx describes feudalism, capitalism, and the role internal social contradictions play in the historical process:

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

" Scott McCrea describes the setting as " a nonrealistic Venice " and the laws invoked by Portia as part of the " imaginary world of the play ", inconsistent with actual legal practice.

Furthermore, Veal argues, the only explanation for the verbal parallels with the English translation of 1582 would be that the translator saw the play performed and echoed it in his translation, which he describes as " not an impossible theory but far from a plausible one.

One applies to the play of a single hand, and the other describes an entire poker tournament.

The name was selected as a reference to the Shakespearean play Othello, the Moor of Venice, referencing the conflict between the Moor Othello and Iago, who describes himself as " two faced " and more controversially, to the unfolding drama between Othello, who is black, and Desdemona, who is white.

A popular Cardassian board game is Kotra, which, as Garak describes it, favors bold tactical maneuvers over defensive play ; hence Garak's criticism of Nog's attempts to regroup his pieces during a game they played in the episode " Empok Nor ".

It also describes in its stage directions the prominence that technical aspects of theatre should play in a production, most notably in the use of signs or projections appearing after certain scenes which present the audience with relevant information about Hitler's own rise to power, in order to clarify the parallels.

The first dramatic text written by Gombrowicz was Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda ( Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, 1938 ), a tragicomedy — a play that describes what the enslavement of form, custom, and ceremony brings.

Because pragmatics describes generally the forces in play for a given utterance, it includes the study of power, gender, race, identity, and their interactions with individual speech acts.

Samuel Pepys saw the hybrid play on 18 February 1662 ; he describes it in his Diary as " a good play, and well performed " – he was especially impressed by the singing and dancing of the young actress who played Viola, Beatrice's sister ( Davenant's creation ).

Grahn describes " play " as the granting of autonomy and agency to the readers or audience: " rather than the emotional manipulation that is a characteristic of linear writing, Stein uses play.

" Stanza 46 describes that, in reference to Ragnarök, the " sons " of Mím are at play while " fate burns " ( though no further information about these " sons " has survived ), that the god Heimdallr blows the Gjallarhorn, and that Mímir's decapitated head gives counsel to Odin.

The Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi writing in 985, describes Tiberias as a hedonistic city afflicted by heat :-' For two months they dance ; for two months they gobble ; for two months they swat ; for two months they go about naked ; for two months they play thje reed flute ; and for two months they wallow in the mud.

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

Keith Johnson of Allmusic describes a " Modern Creative " genre, in which " musicians may incorporate free playing into structured modes -- or play just about anything.

At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.

It can put an end to marginal claims which play havoc with your insurance rates.

He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.

As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.

Some websites allow play in real time and immediately show the opponents ' moves, while others use email to notify the players after each move ( see the links at the end of this article ).

Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end.

The players collect points that determine whether they can play in Super Series Final held at the year end.

Players do not play their cards to the centre of the table during the play but instead play them immediately in front of themselves and turn them face down at the end of each trick.

At the end of the hand each player returns his hand, intact, to the correct slot in the bridge board in which it is transported to other tables so that everyone can play the same deals.

The draw may stand, or the opponents may be required to play an extra end to decide the winner.

In the first end of the game the A players lead off with 2 bowls each, then the B players play 4 bowls each, before the A players complete the end with their final 2 bowls.

From the beginning of each playing period with a stroke-off ( a set strike from the centre-spot by one team ) until the end of the playing period, the ball is in play at all times, except when either the ball leaves the field of play, or play is stopped by the referee.

He tinformed Olga Carlisle that, at the end of The Blind Beauty, he wished to depict " the birth of an enlightened and affluent middle class, open to occidental influences, progressive, intelligent, artistic ..." However, Pasternak fell ill with terminal lung cancer before he could complete the first play of the trilogy.

During any shot, any disc that falls completely into the recessed central " 20 " hole ( aka the " Toad ") is removed from play, and counts as twenty points for the owner of the disc at the end of the round, assuming the shot is valid.

Note that incomplete forward passes ( those which go out of bounds, or which touch the ground without being first cleanly caught by a player ) result in the end of the play, and are not returnable by either team.

In the CFL, if the game is tied at the end of regulation play, then each team is given an equal number of chances to break the tie.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

Howe returned to pro hockey shortly after to play with his two sons Mark and Marty Howe ( Mark would later join the Red Wings at the end of his career ) in the upstart World Hockey Association in 1972.

But the crafty Afghan ruler clearly viewed the war as an opportunity to play one side off against the other, for he also offered the British to resist a Central Powers attack on India in exchange for an end to British control of Afghan foreign policy.

Prior to this, the goal line and end line were the same, and players scored a touchdown by leaving the field of play through that line.