Old & Middle
Beowulf's main quest is to slay this monster.
Who is Grendel?
"A Room of One's Own," To the Lighthouse, and suicide via large stone.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
By far one of Shakespeare's most famous lines is, "Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?" This is the meaning of "wherefore."
What is "why?"
This author of the Fifty Shades franchise has a Chilean mother and Scottish father.
Who is E. L. James?
Doctor Faustus & Tamburlain
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
Gawain removes this body part from the Green Knight's body when they first meet.
What is his head?
Jane Austen's shortest novel, an epistolary story later adapted into the film Love and Friendship.
What is Lady Susan?
This daughter is the only one to refuse to suck up to her titular father in King Lear.
Who is Cordelia?
Zadie Smith's debut novel.
What is White Teeth?
Blythe Spirit, Private Lives?
Who is Noël Coward?
Who is King Alfred?
Everybody knows the famous Brontë sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, but there are three other siblings: sisters Elizabeth and Maria (named for mother) and this dude, their only brother.
Who is Barnwell Brontë?
Shakespeare's first play, and a very bloody one at that.
What is Titus Andronicus?
This knighted Indian-born author is claimed by both Britain and America & the subject of a ton of assassination attempts & death threats.
Who is Salman Rushdie?
Equus and Amadeus.
Who is Peter Schaffer?
Chaucer originally intended to write this many stories for each of the 30 pilgrims introduced in the prologue of Canterbury Tales.
What is 4 (two on the way and two on the way back), so some 120 stories were originally planned.
The real name of George Eliot, the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner.
Who is Mary Ann Evans?
The Globe Theater went up in flames when a cannon misfired during this play.
What is Henry VIII?
Chinese-born author Jung Chang is most known for her autobiography Wild Swans, banned in China and her 832-page biography of this Chinese leader, co-written with her Irish historian husband.
Who is Mao Zhedong?
The Rover & Emperor of the Moon.
Who is Aphra Behn?
This old English poet is known for Christ II (The Ascension) Elene, Juliana, and The Fates of the Apostles.
Whos is Cynewulf?
J. K. Rowling isn't the only penname Joanne goes by. She also published under this male name.
Who is Robert Galbraith?
This play gives Falstaff (the dude from Henry IV) a chance at love.
What is The Merry Wives of Windsor?
This Jamaican-born Marxist sociologist founded the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies. Some of his most important writings include "The Whites of Their Eyes" and "Encoding/Decoding."
Who is Stuart Hall?
Cloud 9 &Top Grls
Who is Caryl Churchill?