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In the novel The Tenth Circle (2006) by Jodi Picoult, the main character's comic strip, The Tenth Circle, is based on the Inferno. [37] Dante himself is a character in The Master of Verona (2007), a novel by David Blixt that combines the people of Dante's time with the characters of Shakespeare's Italian plays. [38]
Mavaratham – Mavaratham (Māvārataṁ) is one of the ballads of Venad based on the characters from Mahabharata. In the tenth chapter of the novel the guards at Sree Pandarathu house recites a few verses from Mavaratham and when mad Channan voluntarily come into their group and questioned by them, he recites a few broken lines (paragraph 16 ...
The character based on Theseus is played by Ludwig Von Drake, and the character based on Egeus by Scrooge McDuck. Goofy appears as an accident-prone Puck. The story ends with the revelation that it was a dream experienced by Mickey Mouse while sleeping at a picnic hosted by Minnie. [citation needed]
The Two Pigeons (original French title: Les deux pigeons) is a fable by Jean de la Fontaine (Book IX.2) that was adapted as a ballet with music by André Messager in the 19th century and rechoreagraphed to the same music by Frederick Ashton in the 20th.
Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II (1832). Gogol wrote an ironic and bittersweet reworking of the legend in his 1835 novella The Old World Landowners. Charles Gounod wrote his opéra comique Philémon et Baucis in 1860. The Lanchester Marionettes created a puppet show Philemon and Baucis in 1952 [4]
The last story in the volume was the two-part "Big Two-Hearted River". [15] The piece was later included in Hemingway's collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories published in October 1938, and in two collections of short stories published after his death, The Nick Adams Stories (1972) and The Complete Short Stories of Ernest ...
Alternatively, it is claimed by many in Tarrytown that Samuel Youngs is the individual from whom Irving drew his character. [10] Author Gary Denniss asserts that while Crane is loosely based on Merwin, it may include elements from Youngs's life. [11] Ichabod Crane, Respectfully Dedicated to Washington Irving. William J. Wilgus (1819–53 ...
The novel is set in the reign of "old King Henry VI" (1422–1461, 1470–1471) and during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487). The story begins with the Tunstall Moat House alarm bell, rung to summon recruits for its absent lord Sir Daniel Brackley, to join the Battle of Risingham; at which the outlaw "fellowship" known as "the Black Arrow" begins to strike with its "four black arrows" for ...