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LITERARY LOVERS MINI-RESEARCH TOPICS Shakespearean Couples. Lorenzo & Jessica ( Merchant of Venice) Claudio & Hero (Much Ado About Nothing) Oliver & Celia ( As You Like It) Claudio & Juliet ( Measure for Measure) Florizel & Perdita (The Winter’s Tale)
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LITERARY LOVERS MINI-RESEARCH TOPICSShakespearean Couples • Lorenzo & Jessica (Merchant of Venice) • Claudio & Hero (Much Ado About Nothing) • Oliver & Celia (As You Like It) • Claudio & Juliet (Measure for Measure) • Florizel& Perdita(The Winter’s Tale) • Antony & Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra) • Troilus & Cressida (Troilus & Cressida) • Othello & Desdemona (Othello) • Julia & Proteus (Two Gentlemen of Verona) • Silvia & Valentine (Two Gentlemen of Verona) • Helena & Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) • Hermia& Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) • Orsino& Viola (Twelfth Night) • Sebastian & Olivia (Twelfth Night) • Petruchio & Katherine (Taming of the Shrew) • Beatrice & Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing) • Orlando & Rosalind (As You Like It) • Leontes& Hermione (The Winter’s Tale) • Ferdinand & Miranda (The Tempest) • Macbeth & Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)
Other Fictional Couples • Tristan and Iseult (or Tristram and Isolde) • Lancelot and Guinevere • King Arthur and Guinevere • Igraine and UtherPendragon • Merlin and Nimue • Sir Gawain and Ragnelle • Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell • Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen • Emma and Knightley Emma, by Jane Austen • Jane Eyre and Rochester Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte • Catherine and Heathcliff Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte • Odysseus and Penelope The Odyssey, by Homer • Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan • Hester Prynne and Arthur DimmsdaleThe Scarlet Letter
Real Literary Couples • Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell • Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn • Sylvia Plath and Edward James “Ted” Hughes • Norman Mailer and Lady Jeanne Campbell • Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud • Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet • Rebecca West and H.G. Wells • AnziaYezierska and John Dewey • Jessie Fauset and W.E.B. Du Bois • Percy Shelley & Mary Shelley • Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody • D.H. Lawrence and Frieda • Norman Mailer and Norris Church Mailer • Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm • F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald • Henry and June Miller • Henry Miller and Anais Nin • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source: http://flavorwire.com/197302/bad-romance-historys-ill-fated-literary-couples
Alcoholics and Addicts • Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005): Everything • Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959): Booze • John Cheever (1912 - 1982): Alcohol, Various Drugs • O. Henry (1862 - 1910): Alcohol • Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983): Alcohol, Amphetamine, Barbiturates • Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953): Alcohol • Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967): Alcohol • Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): Alcohol • Truman Capote (1924 - 1984): Booze, Various Drugs • Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969): Alcohol • William Faulkner (1897 - 1962): Alcohol • Charles Bukowski(1920 - 1994): Alcohol • F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940): Alcohol • James Joyce • Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961): Booze • Charles Baudelaire • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861): Opium • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950): Alcohol • William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997): Heroin • James Baldwin (1924 - 1987): Alcohol • Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), Alcohol • Jack London (1876 - 1916): Alcohol • Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951): Alcohol • Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974): Alcohol, Drugs • Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007): Alcohol • Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896): Alcohol, Absinthe, Drugs • Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961): Alcohol • Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982): Speed/Dexedrine • Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963): Opium • Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953): Alcohol • Stephen King (1947 - present): Booze, Cocaine, Prescription Meds • Gregory Corso (Beat poet) (1930 - 2001): Alcohol, Heroin