What is the name of the language spoken by the teenage gangs in A Clockwork Orange (1962)?
The mixture of Russian with American and British slang in A Clockwork Orange is called “Nadsat.”
The mixture of Russian with American and British slang in A Clockwork Orange is called “Nadsat.”
The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams opened in New York in 1947 and ran for 855 performances.
The only scenery in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a tree, leafless in Act 1, and with leaves in Act 2.
Ezra Mannon, a New England general returning from the Civil War represents Agamemnon in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra. His wife Christine represents Clytemnestra.
Mocha Dick was a legendary white whale said to have killed more than thirty men and attacked several ships in the 1800s. His story was told in The Knickerbocker Magazine in 1839. Melville’s Moby-Dick of 1851 may have been influenced by the story.
Merlin the sorcerer first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain (1137). This Latin prose work by the English chronicler also helped build the legend of Merlin’s protégé, King Arthur.
In The Iliad (ninth century B.C.), Venus is Aeneas’s mother?