What was Moliere’s real name?
Moliere’s real name was Jean Baptiste Poquelin.
Among the French playwright’s works are Tartuffe (1664) and The Misanthrope (1666).
Moliere’s real name was Jean Baptiste Poquelin.
Among the French playwright’s works are Tartuffe (1664) and The Misanthrope (1666).
In act 1, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father says she “hath not seen the change of fourteen years”, making her thirteen.
One of the earliest and most influential American magazine editors, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1830. In addition to founding the first national women’s magazine, Godey’s Ladies’Magazine, and successfully campaigning to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, she was inspired to write the rhyme by an actual case of a child’s…
The source of the title The Catcher in the Rye is a reference to Robert Burns’s poem “Comin’ Through the Rye” (1792), which Holden Caulfield quotes.
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848) is subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero”.
Eugene O’Neill won four Pulitzer prizes, for Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), and Long Day’s Journey into Night (1957).
“Well, let’s get on with it. . . .” is the last line of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit. It is spoken by Garcia when he realizes he is facing eternity.