Portal:Literature/Did you know/9


 * ... that literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex?
 * ... that the only copy of the book La Promenade du sceptique by Denis Diderot was confiscated by police on two occasions?
 * ... that shenmo, the "gods and demons" genre of Chinese literature, includes fantasy novels such as Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods?
 * ... that singer Morrissey's Autobiography was published in Penguin Classics, an imprint normally reserved for venerated and long-dead authors?
 * ... that The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women?