Who first played Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy?
Edward Alleyn played Doctor Faustus in the original production of Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy, circa 1589.
Alleyn also played the lead in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great (1587).
Edward Alleyn played Doctor Faustus in the original production of Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy, circa 1589.
Alleyn also played the lead in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great (1587).
Dr. Spielvogel is the psychiatrist to whom Alexander Portnoy tells his story in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
Philip Pirrip was Pip’s real name in Great Expectations.
The glazier Heurtebise (literally “break wind”) aids the poet Orphee in rescuing his wife from Death. Cocteau has written that the name of Heurtebise in the play Orphee was revealed to him in an opium-induced vision. The name obsessed Cocteau to the point that he thought another being was living inside him.
Pamela’s last name in Samuel Richard-son’s Pamela was Andrews.
Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty (1851-1904) in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish father and French mother. Her married name came from her husband, Oscar Chopin. Her fiction includes the novel The Awakening (1899).
Percy Shelley’s first wife Harriet Westbrook Shelley committed suicide by drowning in 1816, two years after Shelley left her for Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley had eloped with the sixteen-year-old Harriet in 1811. Shelley himself died by drowning in a boating accident aboard his schooner, Ariel, in 1822.