A woman (either <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hughes" id="mwNg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Margaret Hughes">Margaret Hughes</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Marshall" id="mwNw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anne Marshall">Anne Marshall</a>) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desdemona" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Desdemona">Desdemona</a> in a production of Shakespeare's play <i id="mwOQ"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello" id="mwOg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Othello">Othello</a></i>.