LITERARY LOVERS MINI-RESEARCH TOPICS
Shakespearean Couples
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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
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Tristan and Iseult (or Tristram and Isolde)
Lancelot and Guinevere
King Arthur and Guinevere
Igraine and Uther Pendragon
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 Dimmsdale The Scarlet
Letter
Real Literary Couples
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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
Anzia Yezierska 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-fatedliterary-couples
Alcoholics and Addicts
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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