What is Mrs. Dalloway’s first name?
The title character of the 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is named Clarissa.
The title character of the 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is named Clarissa.
In The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 3. Antigonus, a lord of Sicilia, runs for his life after hearing “A savage clamor!” He doesn’t make it; his death is reported later in the scene.
Maud Gonne did not marry William Butler Yeats, the poet who made the actress famous through his poems of unrequited love. In 1903, after knowing Yeats for fourteen years, Gonne married Major John MacBride, an Irish revolutionary characterized by Yeats as a “drunken, vainglorious lout.” MacBride was executed for his role in the Easter Rebellion…
The deepest circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno is the Ninth Circle. It is where betrayers of their family or country are frozen in ice. There, in the center of the earth, a three-headed Lucifer eats at Judas Iscariot and at Cassius and Brutus, betrayers of Julius Caesar.
In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Santiago catches a marlin.
The unhappy Werther’s beloved in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is Lotte.
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde was written between 1385-90.