Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 15

... that English poet W. H. Auden, who died in 1973, is interred in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria?

... that many works of fiction are set in the London Underground system or use it as a major plot element?

... that "Tarry, Jew: The law hath yet another hold on you" are words spoken by Portia, who is disguised as a judge, and addressed to Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice?

... that Robert Lowell's 1960 poem "For the Union Dead" is about Robert Gould Shaw (pictured), the white colonel in command of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry which was defeated by the Confederate Army in the Battle of Fort Wagner (July 18, 1863)?

... that Alan Ayckbourn's plays are usually premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, North Yorkshire?

... that "À une madone" (English translation) is a poem by Charles Baudelaire from his 1857 collection, Les Fleurs du mal?

... that Sally Bowles is an English cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin in Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel, Goodbye to Berlin, and that she was played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie, Cabaret?