Literature Guide

Introduction

Literature is one of the main subjects that come up in Quiz Bowl competitions (along with Science, History, and Fine Arts). Literature, like the other three, contains a large amount of information. The best way for a young Quiz Bowl player to start tackling this vast amount of information begins with memorization. Memorization of key facts and clues in their subject area is the key to success for almost every Quiz Bowl player. However since the amount of information is so vast in subject areas it is equally important for a player to learn good and smart study habits, if there is one thing I wish I had then and have now it would be proficiency in studying. You have to learn that while reading Hamlet may be deeply interesting it is far less efficient than notecarding old questions with clues that consistently come up in competitions. I’m going to quote my friend Paul Hamilton who hits the nail on the head saying, “The single most important skill that a Quiz Bowl player must develop is the ability to distinguish between information that will result in answering more questions and information that is not relevant to actually scoring points.” Therefore it is important that you find the studying habits that work best for you. Experiment with new methods and once you find something that works run with it. Hard work is also essential, never become complacent and strive to become a better player everyday.

What is Literature

Literature mostly covers fiction, plays, and poetry. These can be broken down into different types of questions.

1. Author: this covers the writer of a work and usually focuses on works done by said author. Sometimes biographical information will be featured but not nearly as often. The question usually ends with their best known works. 2. Work: this is the novel, poem, play, etc. It will usually feature plot points and characters as clues with the author’s name coming last. 3. Work Content: This will feature answer lines with major characters, locations, and even events in a novel. The name of the book and the author will be at the end 4. Country or Group: Sometimes there are questions that focus on the country that authors came from or a literary group (ex. England or the Romantics).

All of these categories overlap into each other. So knowing a certain character can help you know the author or the work that may come up as a tossup. Deep knowledge will reward you in more ways than you know

Studying Literature

There are numerous resources that can be used for studying Literature. I’ve listed them here.

1. Frequency List: This list contains all the works and their authors. They’re ordered based on how often they come up in competition. The Catholic Central Academic Team has full access to these pages and Mr. Gismondi has told me he expects freshmen to have the first 10-15 pages memorized by the end of the first quarter of the season. The Frequency List is a great starting point for knowing what you have to know but you need to supplement this with the other resources. 2. Questions: This is a primary way to learn information that is central to Quiz Bowl. One of the central ideas in studying Quiz Bowl is the existence of a canon, information and clues that continually come up in toss-ups. If you hear a clue in a toss-up it’s probably been used in another toss-up before. By studying old questions you prepare yourself for the questions you’ll hear in the future. Here are links to question databases: www.hsapq.com/samples www.quizbowldb.com www.quizbowlpackets.com 3. Wikipedia: This is actually a very useful place to find information for novels, short stories, poems, plays, and authors. The most useful aspects of Wikipedia for me were the plot synopses and character lists that come with most of their articles. Just remember to remain efficient as some articles contain lots of information that, while interesting, isn’t useful for answering Quiz Bowl questions. 4. Sparknotes: A more in depth source from Wikipedia, Sparknotes has novel, play, and short story summaries. It also has helpful character lists and chapter by chapter recaps. Just remember, like Wikipedia, to not get lost in the flood of information 5. Playing Quiz Bowl: Quiz Bowl is a game and experience trumps knowledge more than you think. Learning the discipline, speed, and gamesmanship involved in Quiz Bowl comes from playing as much as you can.

Literature List

This is organized by author with priority given to works in the top 100 on the Frequency List (*).

Chinua Achebe-Nigerian writer

 Things Fall Apart* -Okonkwo, Ikemefuna, Nwoye, Ezinma, Mr. Brown, Reverend Smith  No Longer at Ease (sequel to Things Fall Apart) -Obi Okonkwo, Clara Okeke, Mr. Green, Marie Tomlinson  A Man of the People Odili, Nanga  Anthills of the Savannah -Ikem Osodi, Sam, Chris Oriko

Aeschylus-Ancient Greek playwright, Athenian tragedian

 Orestia* -Agamemnon -Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, Aegisthus -The Libation Bearers -Orestes, Electra, Pylades, Aegisthus, Clytemnestra, Erinyes (Furies) -The Eumenides -Orestes, Erinyes, Apollo, Athena  Seven Against Thebes -Polynices (attacking), Eteocles (defending)  The Persians -Atossa, Xerxes  The Suppliants

Louisa May Alcott-American Novelist

 Little Women* Meg March, Jo March, Beth March, Amy March, Friederich Bhaer, John Brooke, Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, Margaret March, Aunt Josephine  Little Men -Plumfield Boys  Jo’s Boys

Dante Aligheri-Italian Poet

 The Divine Comedy* 3 parts -Inferno* (Hell, 9 circles) (most famous) -Purgatorio (Purgatory, 9 terraces) -Paradiso (Heaven, 9 spheres) Characters Dante, Virgil (guide through Inferno and Purgatorio), Beatrice (Guide through Paradiso) Use of Terza Rima  La Vita Nuova

Jane Austen-English Novelist

 Pride and Prejudice* -Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Catherine Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, Charlotte Lucas  Sense and Sensibility* -Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Edward Ferrars, John Willoughby, Colonel Brandon, Lucy Steele  Mansfield Park -Fanny Price, Edmund Bertram, Mr. Crawford, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Tom Bertram  Emma -Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, Jane Fairfax, Harriet Smith, Mr. Weston, Robert Martin  Northanger Abbey  Persuasion

Samuel Beckett- Irish writer, Theatre of the Absurd

 Waiting for Godot* -Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky, the boy  Krapp’s Last Tape -Krapp, Bianca, Fanny -tape recorder -69 years old  Endgame -Hamm, Clov, Nagg, Nell  Rockaby

Giovanni Boccaccio-Italian writer

 The Decameron* -similar to the Canterbury Tales -7 men and 3 women (called the Brigata) -Black Death -10 stories each day for 10 days  On Famous Women  On the Fates of Famous Men

Anne Bronte-English Novelist, Acton Bell

 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Charlotte Bronte-English novelist, Currer Bell  Jane Eyre* -Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester, Bertha Mason, Adele Varens, Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, Grace Poole, Mrs. Reed -Lowood -The Red Room -Thornfield

Emily Bronte-English Novelist, Ellis Bell

 Wuthering Heights* -Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Isabella Linton, Nelly Dean, Hindley Earnshaw, Hareton Earnshaw -Thrushcross Grange  Agnes Grey

John Bunyan-English writer

 Pilgrim’s Progress* -Christian, Faithful, Hopeful, Judge Hate-Good, Good-Will, the Interpreter, Evangelist, Apollyon -Vanity Fair, City of Destruction, Celestial City

Albert Camus-Algerian author

 The Stranger* -Meursault, the Arab, Marie Cardona, Raymond Sintes, Salamano  The Plague -Oran -Dr. Bernard Rieux, Raymond Rambert, Cottard, Tarrou, Father Paneloux, Joseph Grand

 The Fall -Clamence  The Myth of Sisyphus

Lewis Carroll-British writer and mathematician

 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* -Alice, the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse, Queen of Hearts, Knave of Hearts  Through the Looking Glass -Alice, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Jabberwock  “The Hunting of the Snark” -Bellman  “Jabberwocky” -“twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe” -“”vorpal blade” -“beamish boy”

Willa Cather-American Author

 My Ántonia* -Ántonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Anton Cuzak, Wick Cutter, Lena Lindgard, Larry Donovan  O Pioneers! -Alexandra Bergson, Carl Lindstrum, Emil Bergson, Marie Shabata, Frank Shabata, Crazy Ivar  The Song of the Lark -Thea Kronberg, Dr. Archie, Ray Kennedy, Professor Wusch, Henry Bitmer, Fred Ottenberg  Death Comes to the Archbishop -Joseph Vaillant, Jean Marie Latour

Miguel de Cervantes-Spanish novelist, fought in the Battle of Lepanto

 Don Quixote* -Don Quixote, Sancha Panza, Dulcinera, Rocinante, Knight of the White Moon  Galatea  Exemplary Novels

Geoffrey Chaucer-English poet

 Canterbury Tales* -Chaucer, the Knight, the Wife of Bath, The Reeve, The Miller, The Pardoner There is a helpful list of all the tales with full synopses at http://aceqb.com/improve/ listed under Canterbury Tales

Samuel Taylor Coleridge-British poet

 Lyrical Ballads -with William Wordsworth  “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”* -The Mariner, the wedding-guest, the albatross, 200 sailors -“Water, water every where,/nor any drop to drink” -“stoppeth one of three”  “Kubla Khan” -Xanadu -“stately pleasure dome” -“a damsel with a dulcimer/ Singing of Mount Abora” -interrupted by visitor from Porlock  “Dejection: An Ode” -“My genial spirits fail”  “Christabel”  “The Aeolian Harp”

Joseph Conrad-Polish author who wrote in England

 Heart of Darkness* -Charles Marlow, Kurtz, the Russian, Kurtz’s fiancée -The Nellie -“Exterminate all the brutes” and “the horror, the horror”  Lord Jim -Jim, Marlow -The Patna  Nostromo -Nostromo (Giovanni Battista Fidanza), Charles Gould, Martin Decoud, the Violas -Costaguana  The Secret Agent -Adolf Verloc, Winnie Verloc  Under Western Eyes -Razumov

Stephen Crane-American Novelist

 The Red Badge of Courage* -Henry Fleming, Jim Conklin, Wilson, the Tattered Soldier, the Lieutenatant  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -Maggie Johnson, Jimmie Johnson, Tommie Johnson, Pete, Nellie  “The Open Boat” -the Correspondent (Crane), Billie (the Oiler), the Captain, The Cook  The Black Riders and Other Lines poetry collection

Daniel Defoe-English writer

 Robinson Crusoe* -Crusoe, Friday  Moll Flanders -Moll, Robin, Callum Murray -Moll married 5 times -Newgate Prison  Journal of the Plague Years

Charles Dickens- English novelist

 A Tale of Two Cities* -Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Mannette, Doctor Mannette, Monsieur and Madame Defarge, Jerry Cruncher (Resurrection Man)  David Copperfield* -David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mr. Wickfield, Agnes Wickfield, Clara Pegotty, Dora Spenlow, Thomas Traddles, James Steerforth -Salem House  Great Expectations* -Pip, Estella, Abel Magwitch, Mrs. Havisham, Mr. Jaggers, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gargery, Orlick  Oliver Twist* -Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sikes, Rose, Mr. Brownlow, Monks, Mr. Bumble  A Christmas Carol -Ebenezer Scrooge; Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, Bob Crachit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Fezziwig  Bleak House -Esther Summerson, John Jarndyce, Ada Clare, Allan Woodcourt, Inspector Bucket, Mademoiselle Hortense, Krook (spontaneous combustion) -Jarndyce v. Jarndyce  Hard Times  The Pickwick Papers (first novel)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Russian novelist

 Crime and Punishment* -Raskolnikov, Sonya, Porfiry Petrovich, Dunya, Razumikhin, Svidrigaïlov, Marmeladov, Alyona Ivanovna  The Brothers Karamazov* -Fyodor Karamazov (father), Dmitri Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov, Alexei Karamazov, Pavel Smerdyakov (illegitimate son), Father Zosima, Grushenka  The Idiot -Prince Myshkin, Rogozhin, Nastassya, Agalaya  Notes From the Underground

Alexandre Dumas-French novelist

 The Three Musketeers* -d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Cardinal Richeliu, Milady de Winter  The Count of Monte Cristo* -Edmund Dantes, Danglars, Comte de Morcef, Abbé Faria, Fernand Mondego, Gérard de Villefort, Mercédès Mondego

Other d’Artagnan Romances  Twenty Years After  The Vicomte de Bragelonne -includes the man in the Iron Mast

T.S. Eliot- American poet who became a British citizen

 “The Waste Land”* 5 parts -The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said -dedicated to Ezra Pound  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” -“yellow fog” -“”Do I dare eat a peach” -“women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo”

 “The Hollow Men” -5 sections -“Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves” -“Here we go round the prickly pear” epigraphs “Mistah Kurtz-he dead” “A penny for the Old Guy” “This is how the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper”  “Ash Wednesday”  “Four Quartets”  Murder in the Cathedral (play)

Ralph Ellison-African-American novelist

 Invisible Man* -narrator is “an invisible man” -Dr. Bledsoe, Mr. Norton, Jim Trueblood, The Brotherhood, Ras  Juneteenth (unfinished) -Alonzo “Daddy’ Hickman, Adam Sunraider  Shadow and Act

William Faulkner-American Author

Yoknapatawpha County  The Sound and the Fury* -The Compson family -Jason(III), Caroline, Quentin, Caddy, Jason(IV), Benjy -Reverend Shegog  As I Lay Dying -Bundren family -Cash, Darl, Anse, Dewey, Vardaman, Dell, Jewel -Addie needs to be buried  Light in August -Joe Christmas, Joanna Burden, Gail Hightower, Byron Bunch, Lucas Burch, Lena Grove, Mr. McEachern  Absalom, Absalom! -Thomas Sutpen, Quentin Compson, Rosa Coldfield, Charles Bon, Henry, Wash Jones  “A Rose for Emily” -Emily Grierson, Homer Barron

F. Scott Fitzgerald-American Novelist, part of the Lost Generation

 The Great Gatsby* -Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson, Meyer Wolfsheim -T.J. Eckleburg sign  This Side of Paradise -Amory Blaine  “Babylon Revisited” -Charlie Wales, Honoria  Tender is the Night  The Last Tycoon (last novel)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-German writer (pronounced Gerr-tuh)

 Faust* 2 parts -Heinrich Faust, Mephistopheles, Gretchen, Euphorian  The Sorrows of Young Werther -Werther, Lotte, Albert  Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship -Wilhelm, Barbara, Marianne, Felix, Mignon, Philina

Gabriel García Márquez- Colombian author

 One Hundred Years of Solitude* -The Buendia family (multiple generations) -Jose Arcadio Buendia, Aureliano, Ursula, Remedios - Macondo  Love in the Time of Cholera -Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza, Dr. Juvenal Urbino  Chronicle of a Death Foretold -Santiago Nasar  The General in His Labyrinth -fictional account of Simon Bolivar

Lorraine Hansberry-American playwright and writer

 A Raisin in the Sun* -The Younger family -Walter, Ruth, Travis, Lena, Beneatha -George Mutchinson, Joseph Asagi, Willy Harris  To Be Young, Gifted, and Black  The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window -Sidney, Wally O’Hara Nathaniel Hawthorne-American novelist

 The Scarlet Letter* -Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingsworth, Pearl, Governor Bellingham  The House of Seven Gables -(17th century) Matthew Maule, Colonel Pyncheon -(19th century) Pyncheon Family -The Judge, Phoebe, Hepzibah, Alice, Clifford -Holgrave, Ned Higgins  The Marble Faun -Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello  The Blithesdale Romance  “The Birth-Mark”  “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” -Heidegger, Killigre, Medbourne, Gascoigne, Wycherly  “Rappaccini’s Daughter” -Dr. Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice

Joseph Heller-American author

 Catch-22* -Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Major Major Major Major, Colonel Cathcart, Snowden, Nately, Doc Daneeka

Ernest Hemingway- American Novelist and all around badass

 A Farewell to Arms* -Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley, Rinaldi, Dr. Valenti  For Whom the Bell Tolls* -Robert Jordan, Maria, Pablo, Pilar, Anselmo, General Golz  The Sun Also Rises* -Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Michael Campbell, Bil Gorton, Pedro Romero, Montoya  The Old Man and the Sea -Santiago, Manolin -Joe Dimaggio referenced  The Nick Adams Stories -“The Killers”-most important -Max and Al (hitmen), Ole Anderson (boxer), Sam, George

Homer-Greek Epic Poetry

 Iliad* Greeks -Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Diomedes, Menelaus, Ajax, Nestor, Trojans -Hector, Priam, Paris, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Glaucus, Pandarus -Women -Helen, Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, Briseis  The Odyssey* -Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Calypso, Circe, Polyphemus, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis  The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Victor Hugo-French author

 Les Misérables* -Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Marius Pontmercy, the Thenardiers  The Hunchback of Notre Dame -Quasimodo, Claude Frollo, Esmerelda, Captain Phoebus, Gringoire  Toilers of the Sea

Aldous Huxley-British author

 Brave New World* -John the Savage, Bernard Marx, Mustapha Mond, Lenina, Helmholtz Watson -Bokanovsky Process, Year of Ford  Point Counter Point -Walter Bidlake, Phillip Quarles  After Many a Summer Dies the Swan -Jeremy Pordage, Jo Stoyte, Virginia Maunciple, Peter Boone  Crome Yellow  Eyeless in Gaza -Helen Ledwidge, Anthony Beavis

Henrik Ibsen-Norwegian playwright

 A Doll’s House* -Nora Helmer, Torvald Helmer, Krogstad, Kristine Linde  Hedda Gabbler -Hedda Gabbler, George Tesman, Judge Brack, Eilert Lövborg, Thea Elvsted, Bertha

 The Wild Duck -Hedvig, Hialmar Ekvald, Gregers Werle  Ghosts -Helene Alving, Oswald Alving  An Enemy of the People -Doctor Thomas Stockmann  Peer Gynt

Washington Irving-American writer, Dietrich Knickerbocker+penname

Collections  The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon  Tale of a Traveler  “Rip van Winkle”* -Rip, Henry Hudson, Judith Gardenier, Wolf -nine pins -20 years asleep

James Joyce- Irish novelist poet

 Ulysses* -Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan,  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Emma Clery, Father Arnall  Finnegans Wake -Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Shem, Shaun Issy  Dubliners (short story collection) -“The Dead” -Gabriel Conroy -“Araby” -“Eveline” -“Ivy Day in the Committee Room”  Chamber Music

Harper Lee- American author

 To Kill a Mockingbird* -Atticus Finch, Scout Finch, Jem Finch, Dill Harris, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, Calpurnia

Jack London-American novelist

 The Call of the Wild* -Buck, John Thornton, Spitz, Dave, Hal, Charles, Mercedes, Judge Miller

 White Fang -White Fang, Kiche, One Eye, Grey Beaver, Beauty Smith, Weedon Scott, Collie, Judge Scott  The Sea-Wolf -Wolf Larsen, Humphrey van Weyden, Maud Brewster, Johnson, Leach, Death Larsen  “To Build a Fire”  The Iron Heel -Avis Everhard

Thomas Mann-German writer

 Magic Mountain* -Hans Castorp, Settembrini, Mynheer Peppercorn, Clavdia Clauchat, Leo Naphta  Death in Venice -Gustav von Ashenbach, Tadzio, Jaschiu  Doctor Faustus -Adrian Leverkuhn, Serenus Zeitblom, Esmerelda, Schildknapp -composer  Mario and the Magician -Cavaliere Cipolla (the magician)  Buddenbrooks (first novel) -Tom, Christian, Gerda, Hanno, Gotthold, Old Johann

Herman Melville-American Novelist

 Moby Dick* -Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeq, Starbuck, Fedallah, Stubb, Flask, Pip, Tashtego, Daggoo, the Whale  Billy Budd: Foretopman* -Billy Budd, Captain Vere, John Claggart  Bartleby the Scrivener -Bartleby, the narrator (a Manhattan attorney), Nippers, Turkey, Ginger Nut

Arthur Miller-American Playwright

 The Crucible* -John Proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, Elizabeth Proctor, Judge Hathorne, Mr. Danforth, Giles Corey, Thomas Putnam, Mary Warren, Rebecca Nurse  Death of a Salesman* -Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Biff, Happy, Charley, Bernard, Howard Wagner

 All My Sons -Joe Keller, Kate Keller, Chris Keller, Ann Deever, George Deever, Steve Deever (unseen) -defective airplane parts  A View From the Bridge -Eddie Carbone, Catherine, Rodolpho, Marco  After the Fall  The Price  The Last Yankee

John Milton-English poet

 Paradise Lost* -Satan (Lucifer), Adam and Eve, Son of God, God the Father, Raphael, Michael, Mammon, Beelzebub Poems  “Lycidas”  “L’Allegro”  “Il Penseroso”

Vladimir Nabokov-Russian-American author

 Lolita* -Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Clare Quilty, Charlotte Haze, Dick Schiller  Pale Fire -999-line poem by fictional poet John Shade -fictional editor Charles Kinbote

Eugene O’Neill-American playwright

 Long Day’s Journey into Night* -James Tyrone Sr. (actor), Mary Tyrone (morphine addict), Jamie Tyrone, Edmund Tyrone, Cathleen -not seen-Shaughnessy, Doc Hardy  The Iceman Cometh -Theodore “Hickey” Hickman (murdered Evelyn), Piet Wetjoen, Cecil Lewis, Don Parritt, Harry Slade, Joe Mott -Harry Hope’s bar  Mourning Becomes Electra Trilogy adaptation of the Orestia -Homecoming -The Hunted -The Haunted -Ezra Mannon, Christine Mannon, Orin Mannon, Lavinia Mannon, Captain Brant

 Anna Christie Anna, Chris Christopherson, Mat Burke, Johnny the Priest  Desire Under the Elms -Ephraim Cabot, Simeon Cabot, Peter Cabot, Eben Cabot, Abbie Putnam  The Great God Brown  The Emperor Jones

George Orwell- English novelist and satirist

 1984* -Big Brother, Winston Smith, Julia, O’Brien, Emmanuel Goldstein, Charrington  Animal Farm* -Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer, Old Major, Boxer, Benjamin, Moses, Mr. Jones, Mr. Frederick  “Shooting an Elephant”

Edgar Allan Poe-American writer

 The Raven* -Lenore -“Nevermore” -Bust of Pallas -“A midnight dreary”  “The Cask of Amontillado” -Montresor, Fortunato  “The Fall of the House of Usher” -Roderick and Madeline Usher  “The Masque of Red Death” -Prince Prospero  “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” -C. Auguste Dupin  “The Purloined Letter” -Dupin (again)  “The Pit and the Pendulum”  “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Aleksander Pushkin-Russian Author

 Eugene Onegin* -in verse -Eugene Onegin, Vladimir Lensky, Tatyana, Larina, Olga Larina, Zaretsky, Guillot  “The Queen of Spades” -Hermann, the Countess, Lizavyeta Ivanovna  Boris Godunov -Russian Czar who began time of troubles -opera by Mussorgsky  The Bronze Horseman -Evgenii, Parasha, the Neva river,  The Stone Guest -Don Juan

J.D. Salinger-American writer

 Catcher in the Rye* -Holden Caufield, Phoebe Caufield, D.B Caufield, Allie Caufield, Sunny, Maurice, Sally Hayes, Mr. Antolini, Horwitz

-The Glass Family -Les(father), Bessie (mother), Seymour, Buddy (Salinger standin), Boo Boo, Walt, Waker, Zooey, Franny -Appeared on It’s a Wise Child

 Franny and Zooey -Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Lane Coutell  Nine Stories -“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” -Seymour Glass, Sybil Carpenter -“For Esmé-With Love and Squalor” -Sergeant X, Esmé -“Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” -Eloise, Mary Jane, Walt -“The Laughing Man” -The Chief, the Comanche Club -“Teddy” -Theodore “Teddy” McArdle, Nicholson

Sir Walter Scott-Scottish writer

 Ivanhoe* -Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Cedric the Saxon, Rowena, Rebecca, Richard the Lion Heart (the Black Knight), Locksley (Robin Hood)  The Bride of Lammermoor -Lucy Ashton, Edgar Ravenswood  The Heart of Midlothian -Jeannie Deans, John Porteus -Tolbooth Prison  Rob Roy -Frank Osbaldistone, Diana Vernon, Rashleigh, MacGregor

 Guy Mannering -Harry Bertram  Waverly Edward, Clan mac-Ivor

William Shakespeare-The single most tossed-up writer in Quiz Bowl, a literature player needs to know almost every work by this playwright.

 Hamlet* -Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Horatio, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Ghost of Old Hamlet  Macbeth* -Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, MacDuff, Banquo, Malcolm, Duncan, Donalbain, the Three Witches  King Lear* -Lear, Cordelia, Reagan, Goneril, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund, the Fool  Othello* -Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Michael Cassio, Emilia, Roderigo, Brabantio, the Doge of Venice  The Tempest* -Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Ferdinand, Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Stephano  Romeo and Juliet* -Capulets (Juliet) and Montagues (Romeo) (feuding families) -Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Tybalt, Benvolio, Nurse, Friar Laurence, Prince Escalus, Count Paris  The Merchant of Venice* -Shylock, Bassanio, Portia (Balthazar), Antonio, Lorenzo, Jessica, Nerissa (Stephano), Gratiano  A Midsummer Night’s Dream* Humans -Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Theseus, Hippolyta, the Mechanicals, Nick Bottom Faeries -Puck/Robin Goodfellow, Oberon, Titania  Julius Caesar* -Brutus, Cassius, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Calpurnia, Portia, Octavius, Lepidus, Soothsayer  As You Like It* -Rosalind, Celia, Touchstone, Jacques, Orlando, Oliver, Duke Senior  Much Ado About Nothing* -Hero, Claudio, Benedick, Beatrice, Don Pedro, Don John, Dogberry  The Merry Wives of Windsor* -John Falstaff, Mistress Ford, Mistress Page, Mistress Quickly  The Taming of the Shrew* -Katherina, Petruchio, Bianca, Hortensio, Lucentio, Baptista, Christopher Slay

George Bernard Shaw- Bristish playwright

 Pygmalion* -Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, Colonel Pickering, Albert Doolittle, Freddie Hill -Basis for My Fair Lady  Mrs. Warren’s Profession -Mrs. Kitty Warren, Mr. Praed, Sir George Crofts, Reverend Samuel Gardener, Vivie Warren, Frank Gardner  Major Barbara -Barbara, Andrew Undershaft, Lady Britomart, Adolphus Cusins  Arms and the Man -Raina Petkoff, Captain Bluntschli  Man and Superman  Candida

Upton Sinclair-American novelist

 The Jungle* -Jurgus Rudkis, Ona, Antanas (Jurgis’ father and son), Phil Connor, Elzbieta, Stanislovas -Pure Food and Drug Act  Oil! -James Arnold Ross -basis for There Will Be Blood

Sophocles-Ancient Greek Playwright, one of the three Athenian tragedians

Theban Plays  Oedipus Rex* -Oedipus, Tiresias, Jocasta, Creon  Oedipus at Colonus -Oedipus, Antigone, Ismene, Theseus, Eumenides, Creon  Antigone* -Antigone, Ismene, Creon, Tiresias, Haemon, Eurydice

John Steinbeck-American author

 The Grapes of Wrath* -Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Connie Rivers, Jim Casy, numerous other Joads  Of Mice and Men -George Milton, Lennie Small, Curley, Curley’s wife, Candy, Crook  Cannery Row -Doc, Mack, Dora, Lee Chong, Hazel, Eddie, Chinaman

 East of Eden -Adam Trask, Caleb Trask, Aron Trask, Cathy Ames, Samuel Hamilton, Lee  The Pearl -Kino, Juana, Coyotito

Harriet Beecher Stowe-American novelist

 Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Uncle Tom, Eva St. Clare (Little Eva), Simpn Legree, George Harris, George Shelby, Topsy, Eliza  “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” -Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, Katrina Van Tassel, Headless Horseman  “The Devil and Tom Walker” -Tom Walker, Old Scratch (devil), Captain Kidd

Alfred Lord Tennyson-English poet

 Charge of the Light Brigade* -Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War -the six hundred  Ulysses  In Memoriam A.H.H -Arthur Henry Hallam  Crossing the Bar  The Lady of Shallot  The Kraken  Tithonus  Enoch Arden  The Lotus-Eaters

Mark Twain- American novelist and humorist

 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* -Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jim, the Duke, the King, Sheperdsons and Grangerfords  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* -Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Sid  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court -Hank Morgan  The Gilded Age  “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Leo Tolstoy-Russian novelist

 Anna Karenina* -Anna Karenina, Count Vronsky, Stiva, Dolly, Kitty, Konstantin Levin, Seryozha, Anna, Frou-Frou  War and Peace -Napoleonic Wars  Resurrection  The Death of Ivan Ilyich -Ivan Ilyich, Gerasim, Peter Ivanovich

Virgil- Ancient Roman Poet

 Aeneid* -Aeneas, Dido, Lavinia, Pallas, Turnus

Voltaire-French writer and philosopher

 Candide* -Candide, Dr. Pangloss, Cunégonde, Cacambo  Merope  Zaire  Letters on the English

Kurt Vonnegut-American Writer

 Slaughterhouse Five* -Billy Pilgrim, Montana Wildhack, Tralfamadorians, Kilgore Trout, Howard Campbell, Elliot Rosewater, Paul Lazzarro  Cat’s Cradle -John, Felix Hoenikker, Papa Monzano -ice-nine -Bokonism  Breakfast of Champions -Dwayne Hoover, Kilgore Trout  God Bless You -Eliot Rosewater, Norman Mushari  The Sirens of Titan

Robert Penn Warren-American writer

 All the King’s Men* -Willy Loman, Jack Burden, Anne Stanton, Adam Stanton, Judge Irwin, Cass Mastern, Tiny Duffey

Tennessee Williams-American Playwright

 A Streetcar Named Desire* -Blache Du Bois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Harold “Mitch” Mitchell  The Glass Menagerie* -Amanda Wingfield, Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Jim O’Connor  Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Pollitt Family -Big Daddy, Big Mama, Maggie, Brick, Mae, Gooper  The Rose Tattoo

Oscar Wilde-English writer

 The Importance of Being Earnest* -Jack Worthing, Algernon Montcrief, Gwendolen Fairfax, Cecily Cardew, Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism  The Picture of Dorian Gray -Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, Henry Wotton, Sybil Vane, James Vane, Alan Campbell  Lady Windemere’s Fan  “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”  “De Profundis”

Thornton Wilder- American playwright

 Our Town* -Emily Webb, George Gibbs, Simon Stimson, Joe Crowell, Stage Manager -Grover’s Corner  The Skin of Our Teeth -Antrobus family (George, Maggie, Henry and Gladys), Sabina  The Bridge of San Luis Rey

William Wordsworth- English Poet

 Lyrical Ballads -with Coleridge

 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” -“dance with the daffodils”  “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” -“five years have passed”  The Prelude -Also known as The Recluse  “Ode: Imitations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”