Curated playlist
Love stories
- As You Like ItShakespeare's comedy As You Like It opens with a wrestling match, not a battle.
- CinderellaIn the tale usually considered the earliest Cinderella, an eagle drops a sandal into a king's lap.
- Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet announces in its prologue that the lovers will die.
- The Sun Also RisesHemingway's mother called The Sun Also Rises one of "the filthiest books of the year." It still became a classic.
- Jane EyreOne reviewer declared that no woman could possibly have written Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte wrote as Currer Bell.
- Troilus and CressidaTwo 1609 printings of Troilus and Cressida disagree on whether it was ever staged.
- Antony and CleopatraIn Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a boy actor plays Cleopatra imagining a boy playing her.
- Gone with the Wind (novel)Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind to pass time while recovering from a car crash injury.
- Wuthering HeightsWuthering Heights is the only novel Emily Brontë ever published, and it first appeared in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell. One early review, in Graham's Lady Magazine, reacted with open horror. The critic asked how a human being could…
- The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew begins with a prank on a drunken tinker. Servants dress him as a lord and stage a play.
- Titanic (1997 film)Rather than cut Titanic, James Cameron gave up his $8 million director's salary.
- Bonnie and ClydeBonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, together known as Bonnie and Clyde, died on the 23rd of May 1934 on Louisiana Highway 154 in Bienville Parish. Six lawmen crouched in the roadside bushes as a car came toward them at high speed. They fired…
- The Two Gentlemen of VeronaShakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona may be his first play. No other play of his has a smaller cast.