What does the A.A. in A. A. Milne stand for?
The A.A. in A. A. Milne stands for Alan Alexander.
Milne is best known as the author of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
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What was the interminable law case in Dickens’s Bleak House (1852-53)?
The interminable law case in Dickens’s Bleak House was Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, a case stemming from a dispute about distribution of an estate.
When did Raphael Holinshed write his chronicles?
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland appeared in 1577. This history was Shakespeare’s source for much of Macbeth, King Lear, and Cymbeline. Holinshed died about 1580.
Who is the referee in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes in Act 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (c. 1601)?
Osric, a foppish courtier, is the referee in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes in Act 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
What poet in what poem says “I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul”?
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) says “I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul” in “Invictus.”
In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), what fish does Santiago catch?
In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Santiago catches a marlin.
Where did the character Mrs. Malaprop appear?
Mrs. Malaprop appeared in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals. She had a habit of misusing words in sentences like “I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.” The character gave rise to the term malapropism.