The source of the title of Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel (1929) was John Milton’s poem “Lycidas” (1637).
Milton asks his dead friend, now an angel, to look back compassionately on his still-living friends:
Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth:
And, 0 ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Bloomsday, the date on which James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is set, is June 16, 1904.
The alternative title to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was The Modern Prometheus.
The sequel to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward is Equality (1897).
The end of The Lady or the Tiger is not revealed. It is not revealed.
Rioting started during the first performance of the comedy The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907. The commotion was started by a reference to an undergarment.
Antigone’s two brothers are Eteocles and Polyneices. Both are dead when the play opens, but Creon forbids the burial of Polyneices, who had rebelled against Creon’s rule. Antigone gives him a token burial anyway. Antigone also has a sister, Ismene.