Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 3

... that The Act of Roger Murgatroyd is a whodunnit by Gilbert Adair first published in 2006 and written in the vein of an Agatha Christie novel?

... that in pantomime, Hanswurst is a character in comic performances on the German stage, distinguished for his awkwardness, his gluttonous appetite, and his rotundity?

... that Homicide is a 1991 film by playwright David Mamet about an inner-city homicide detective who, assigned to a case involving a Jewish family, is forced to come to terms with his own ethnic and religious identity?

... that both Bharati Mukherjee's Leave It to Me (1997) and Libby Purves's Mother Country (2002) are novels in which the protagonist goes in search of his biological parents?

... that there are many literary works with eponymous heroes?

... that Village of the Damned is the title of two films both of which are based on John Wyndham's 1957 science fiction novel, The Midwich Cuckoos?

... that during the original production of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger in 1956, the Royal Court's press officer called the author an "angry young man", a phrase which subsequently came to represent a new movement in 1950s British theatre?