When did James Joyce get married?
James Joyce married Nora Barnacle in 1931, just ten years before his death.
They had lived together since 1904.
James Joyce married Nora Barnacle in 1931, just ten years before his death.
They had lived together since 1904.
Bluebeard, the title character of Charles Perrault’s story “Barbebleue” (1697) kills his wives for looking into the locked room where he stores the corpses of other disobedient wives. His final wife, however, escapes Bluebeard’s punishment.
Ahab’s harpooneers in Moby Dick were Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo.
The name of Don Quixote’s horse was Rocinante. The scrawny old horse and its rider appeared in Cervantes’s Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615).
The “Whore of Babylon” appears in the New Testament Book of Revelation 17:1-7. The whore sits on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns. She holds a cup of abominations and has written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.” She was probably meant originally…
The Dublin theater known as the Abbey Theatre dedicated to presenting Irish drama opened in 1904. Its directors included William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory. Destroyed by fire in 1951, the theater reopened in 1966.
Dr. Faustus, the scholar who sells his soul to Satan is torn apart by devils at the end of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus.