Word: noblewoman
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...artist "avoids presenting images that describe individual black people": none of the black figures is a portrait. But so what? There is no individual white person in the painting either, except for a bronze bust of the abolitionist Henry Thornton; the goddess Liberty, far from being "a white noblewoman," is a standard allegorical figure...
...They reveal an astonishing life. A noblewoman of beauty and wealth, Mme. de Sévigné was widowed at 25, when her libertine husband died in a duel over a courtesan. A crush of suitors quickly moved in: Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's ill-fated superintendent of finance; Marshal de Turenne, the outstanding military hero of the era; Prince Armand de Bourbon, a member of the royal family. The widow refused them all. Her deepest affections were held in reserve for her daughter. The occasion for most of the Sévigné letters was the daughter...
...never got to Panov's dressing room. Colleagues missed her when the company began dancing the ballet Miss Julie, in which a noblewoman (danced by Panov's wife Galina) seduces a servant and then, with his help, kills herself. The next morning, police found Helen Hagnes. She had been stripped naked, bound and gagged, and hurled 70 ft. from the Met's roof to her death in an air shaft...
Mozart and Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte created an enormously alluring, vital protagonist who pursues his appetites with cheerful disregard for law or morality. After forcing himself on a noblewoman, Donna Anna, he duels with her father, the Commendatore, and kills him. Then, while the Don busies himself mostly with trying to seduce the peasant girl Zerlina, Donna Anna joins forces with her fiancé Don Ottavio and another of the Don's conquests, Donna Elvira, to hound him through a series of comic entanglements, disguises and escapes. When a statue of the slain Commendatore comes to life and challenges...
Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, which heads the double bill, is a broad satire of the Antigone vein of Greek tragedy. There are only three characters: Dynamane, a recently widowed noblewoman who has decided to die from starvation in her late husband's tomb; Doto, her feeble-witted and man-hungry servant who has decided to die from physical and sexual starvation with her mistress; and Tegeus, or as he is called by Dynamane, Cromus, a steedly Hoplite who blunders into the whole affair and falls in love with Dynamane. Using this simple plot and character framework...