Wanted: Your Literary Trivia ;)

[yui]

he rode the uss norfolk for some of his research for "The Hunt for Red October"...
my ex was able to sit and talk with him for a while because he was a seaman on that fast attack when Clancy was visiting.

Seaman. *snicker*

So your ex conversed with Clancy? Cool beans. My ex converses with Mickey almost daily, but that's not nearly as impressive.

 

[yui]

Re: For Perdita

MALVOLIO has a suggested model in William Knollys, First Earl of Banbury (1547 - 1632). The puritanical treasurer of the household of Elizabeth I, he on one occasion appeared in his nightshirt to reprimand revellers, and conceived a much talked-of passion for his ward, Mary Fitton (see the Dark Lady). His wife was more than forty years his junior, and the paternity of her two sons - neither of whom was mentioned in the Earl's will - became the subject of legal dispute.

OPHELIA may owe something to Katharine Hamlet, of Tiddington, near Stratford-upon-Avon, who drowned in that river in 1579. Althought the question of suicide was considered at her inquest, the verdict was accidental death. Similarly, Hamlet, considers whether Ophelia took her own life or died by accident. Shakespeare probably knew Katharine Hamlet, who lived less than one and a half miles from his home town. He would probably been aware of her drowning, which was doubtless the talk of Stratford, when he was at the impressionable age of fifteen.

From: The Originals - Who's Really Who In Fiction, by William Amos, Sphere Books 1987, first published by Jonathan Cape 1985.

Og

Thanks, Og! Very interesting. I will need to brush up on my "Twelfth Night" to truly appreciate the Malvolio trivia. I mostly remember him as being particularly melancholy. Doesn't his name mean "evil-wishing", or something like that, in Latin?

Luck,

Yui

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I've only conversed with three "name" authors: Tom Wolfe, Claire Booth Luce and William Buckley. However, Luce was a playwright.

TRIVA: About the only Lit trivia I know is that until the very last moment when editor convinced the author to make the change, the name for the female protag in Gone With the Wind wasn't Scarlett, but Pansy O'Hara.

Rumple Foreskin