“Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.” Hamlet, act 3, scene 2 What does this sentence mean? What are the chameleon, air and capons representing? How does this relate to Hamlet's feelings toward Claudius?

This was prompted by this question: Does a translation editor need to know the language of the source document? Recently, a question was asked about the editing / translation process of a work in general - confirmed by the OP in a comment that they weren't restricting the question to literary ...

Quite a few novels and films have titles which, if they appeared as phrases in everyday speech or writing, would normally have to be preceded by an article or other determiner. Some examples: Animal Farm, Little House on the Prairie, and Tropic of Cancer among novels, and Easy Rider, Taxi Driver,...

I'm reading Ivanhoe right now and very much enjoying it. Each chapter in Ivanhoe has an epigraph, often very closely related to the plot of the chapter, meaning that it is often very easy to surmise exactly what will occur purely by reading the epigraphs. While a lot of Ivanhoe is fairly obvious ...