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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The Crucible: Arthur Miller [33] "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts" The Triumph of Steel: Manowar: The Iliad: Homer: A retelling of the fight between Hector and Achilles [34] "Adam's Apple ...

  3. Talk:List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    This is not the same thing as "referring" to a work of literature. I also took out: "Carry On Up the Vicarage" by Steve Hackett is a "condensed version" of a typical Agatha Christie murder mystery plot. Because it does not appear to be a retelling of a work of literature.Tuf-Kat 20:01, Oct 28, 2003 (UTC) Yeah, those entries bothered me too.

  4. List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

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    Sparks featured a song titled "Scheherazade" on their 2000 album Balls, from the point of view of the King. The song "One Thousand and One Nights" by J-pop band See-Saw, used as the opening theme song for the second part of the four-part OVA.hack//Liminality ("In the Case of Yuki Aihara"), references The Nights in both the title and the lyrics.

  5. Lists of music inspired by literature - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of articles, or subsections of articles, about music inspired by literature. [1] Musical settings of, or music inspired by, poems by Byron; Edgar Allan Poe and music; Music related to Anne Rice's novels; Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien [1] Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde; List of songs based on poems; Romeo and Juliet ...

  6. Jack the Ripper in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Rick Geary's Jack the Ripper story in a 1995 volume of his A Treasury of Victorian Murder is a straighter retelling. [ 88 ] In the Italian comic book Martin Mystère , a vampire Richard Van Helsing discovers that the Ripper is an ancient mythical force, divided into several knives, which force their holders to kill.

  7. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    "Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.

  8. Retelling - Wikipedia

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    Retelling, in media studies and literary studies, is the production of a derivative work that is substantially based on an earlier work but that presents the story differently. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In literature

  9. Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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    The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, and since the 1880s dozens of stage and film adaptations have been produced, although there have been no major adaptations to date that remain faithful to the narrative structure of Stevenson's original. Most omit the figure of Utterson, telling the story from Jekyll's and Hyde's ...