@Gallifreyan Alexandre Dumas père, author of The Count of Monte Christo and The Three Musketeers, also wrote a Great Dictionary of Cuisine. There must be a question in there ;-)
As a matter of fact, I've been re-reading Onegin a few weeks ago, for a friend, in English and Turkish, along with an anthology of Russian poetry with Turkish translations
The translations of the latter were mildly disappointing, though less so than the typesetting and the editing, but at least I was happy to learn they existed
Do I hear an argument for undeleting that question? ;-)
By the way, when checking the other Shakespeare Casebooks I have at home, I found that those on Hamlet and The Tempest also have a list of questions at the end. Some of them may be turned into suitable Lit SE questions.
@Mithical The original line used a somewhat offensive word instead of "black", I believe that was the cause of the flag. Someone even left a comment pointing that out, maybe they were the flagger as well
@Randal'Thor That's half of all the Socratic badges that have so far been awarded here. And 9% of the site's existing questions.
If we post 8 more questions tagged french-literature the tag becomes eligible for tag badges. russian-literature needs 7 more questions. All other languages need at least 50 additional questions.
I wonder if that's the record for the most Socratic badges held by a single person on a single site.
@Tsundoku There's three different milestones for tag question counts: 50 (Taxonomist badge awarded to the creator), 100 (eligible for tag badges), 200 (one step closer to Generalist badge availability).
@Randal'Thor Yoichi Oishi asks really good questions on ELU -- no doubt it helps that he's second-language English speaker, so he is able to pick up on little puzzles that a native English speaker would not spot. This one about whether "whammy" can be good as well as bad picks up on something I would have imagined to be a mistake
Something similar happens here on Literature, where second-language speakers often pick up on interesting difficulties, like Ahmed Samir's questions about Chesterton, or Soumee's about Austen
The Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale does not actually take place entirely in winter (unlike, say, A Midsummer Night's Dream where almost all the action does indeed take place on midsummer night). The only line in the play that seems relevant to the title is Mamillius's "A sad tale's best for w...
The beginning of Chapter V in Part Two of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami tells us about political discussions regarding the French colonisation of North Africa. One of the members of Parliament (the Third Republic had a bicameral system and the novel does not clarify whether this is person is a membe...
> He decried the stupidity of erecting buildings that were Greek, Gothic or Romanesque; let us, he begged, be modern and build in the style that belongs to our days. He had found that style. It was Renaissance.