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Robert Baddeley as the "friendly Jew" Moses in
Richard Sheridan's The School for Scandal, c. 1781 |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
John Adams (1735; died July 4, 1826) American lawyer, author, President;
The Works of John Adams
Richard Sheridan (1751; died July 7, 1816) Irish satirical playwright and poet;
The School for Scandal;
The Rivals;
The Duenna;
A Trip to Scarborough
Gertrude Atherton (1857; died June 14, 1948) American author;
Black Oxen;
The Splendid Idle Forties
Paul Valéry (1871; died July 20, 1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher;
La Jeune Parque (
The Young Fate); "Le Cimetière marin" ("The Cemetery by the Sea"); "L'Ébauche d'un serpent" ("Silhouette of a Serpent")
Ezra Pound (1885; died November 1, 1972) American poet and critic;
Ripostes;
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley;
The Cantos
Died on this day:
Joseph Campbell (1987; born March 26, 1904) American mythologist, writer and lecturer who wrote
The Hero with a Thousand Faces; the four-part
Masks of God;
The Mythic Image;
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living;
The Power of Myth
Claude Lévi-Strauss (2009; born November 28, 1908) French anthropologist who wrote
Tristes Tropiques (
Sad Tropics);
La Pensée sauvage (
The Savage Mind);
Le Cru et le cuit (
The Raw and the Cooked);
Myth and Meaning
Bonus Classic:
Guan Hanqing (c. 1241-1320) Chinese playwright and poet;
Dou E Yuan (
The Injustice to Dou E)
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