How long was the first run of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)?
The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams opened in New York in 1947 and ran for 855 performances.
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How old is Joseph K. in Kafka’s The Trial (1925)?
The bank employee Joseph K. is arrested for no apparent reason on his thirtieth birthday Kafka’s The Trial.
How was Cotton Mather related to Increase Mather?
Increase Mather(1639-1723) was the father of Cotton Mather(16631728). Both were clergymen, theologians, and prolific writers in Puritan New England.
How does George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion end?
The play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw ends with Eliza Doolittle asserting her humanity and rejecting Henry Higgins. But the 1938 movie ending, approved by Shaw, brought the pair together. The musical version, My Fair Lady (1956), also had a happy ending.
Who invented the golliwog?
The golliwog, a type of doll known as “the blackest gnome,” was invented by Florence K. Upton in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwog” (1895). More golliwog tales followed until 1909.
Was Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason ever a lawyer?
Yes, Erle Stanley Gardner was a lawyer. Born in 1889, he was admitted to the California bar in 1911 and was known for defending poor Chinese and Mexicans. In the 1940s, he founded the Court of Last Resort, an organization dedicated to helping people unjustly imprisoned.
Where does the term “nihilist” first appear?
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev coined the word “nihilist” in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons.