Mother Goose first appeared in Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose Tales (1697), a collection of popular folk stories.
She is depicted at the front of the book in an illustration of an old woman telling tales by firelight to children.
There are six elements necessary to a play according to Aristotle: plot, thought, character, diction, music, and spectacle.
Lewis Carroll’s books are said to have been written for a friend, Alice Liddell. Liddell, with three other children on an 1862 boating trip, inspired the first of the stories, which Carroll initially called Alice’s Adventures Underground. The book, with additional tales as well as illustrations, was published in 1865, followed in 1871 by Through…
John Keats wrote as his own epitaph, “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”, he died at the age of twenty-five, believing his art would not be remembered.
Bellow’s friend Delmore Schwartz (1913-66), poet, fiction writer, and critic, was the model for Saul Bellow’s hard-drinking poet Von Humboldt Fleisher in the novel Humboldt’s Gift.
Sam Shepard’s first play was The Tooth of Crime (1973). His later plays include Buried Child (1979) and True West (1980).
Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greek armies at Troy, is forced to return a captive woman named Chryseis in order to stop a pestilence sent by the god Apollo at the beginning of Homer’s The Iliad. Agamemnon demands Achilles’ captive Briseis in exchange. Achilles, in anger, refuses to fight for the Greeks any longer.