Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 37

... that "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" and "We shall fight on the beaches" are two famous wartime speeches by Sir Winston Churchill?

... that Wozzeck is an opera by Alban Berg based on Georg Büchner's stage play Woyzeck?

... that "Most near, most dear, most loved and most far" is the first line of George Barker's sonnet "To My Mother", which was first published in his 1944 volume of poetry Eros in Dogma and later anthologized in the Faber Book of Modern Verse?

... that the "New Woman" was a feminist ideal which emerged in the final decades of the 19th century in Europe and North America, and that H. G. Wells's Ann Veronica (1909) &mdash; "this poisonous book", according to The Spectator &mdash; is one of the classic New Woman novels?

... that Richard Brautigan is best known for his 1967 novel, Trout Fishing in America?

... that the theme of adultery features in a wide range of literature through the ages?

... that Frozen is a 2004 stage play by Bryony Lavery focusing on the conversations between a serial killer, the mother of one of his victims, and a female psychiatrist?