Roland and Orlando are the same character.
Roland, knight of Charlemagne’s court, is the hero of The Song of Roland, an eleventh-century French epic.
Orlando is the Italian form of Roland’s name; he appears in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532).
Faust’s soul is rescued by a choir of angels at the end of Goethe’s Faust (1808).
None. Hector’s parents, Priam and Hecuba, are both human.
These lines from Section 27, Stanza 4 of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam lament the loss of Tennyson’s close friend Arthur Hallam, who died at twenty-two.
Aphra Behn (1640-89), author of the play The Rover (1677) and the novel Oroonoko (1688). She wrote under the pseudonym Astrea.
Edward Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew, under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The prolific author died in 1930.
Milton’s masque Comus was first performed on Michaelmas Night (September 29), 1634, at Ludlow Castle to celebrate the Earl of Bridgewater’s becoming Lord President of Wales and the Marches. The Earl’s children enacted the roles of the Lady and her two brothers in the play.