Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 18

... that the Hen and Chickens Theatre (pictured) in Highbury is a typical London fringe venue?

... that Familien Polonius (1827), Drøm og Virkelighed (1833), and To Tidsaldre (1845) are three novellas by Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, and that Søren Kierkegaard wrote a review of the latter?

... that Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a 1993 stage play by Steve Martin in which Pablo Picasso meets Albert Einstein?

... that "the lady that's known as Lou" is the woman two men fight over in Robert W. Service's 1907 poem, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", originally published in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses?

... that, having gained a great reputation for pulpit eloquence, Abraham a Sancta Clara was appointed imperial court preacher in Vienna in 1669, but that he composed a number of anti-semitic texts, calling the Jews "allesamt ehrvergessene, gottlose, gewissenlose, boshafte, schalkhafte, verruchte und verfluchte Gesellen und Bösewichte, Kotkäfer und Galgenzeiserl, Blutegel und Bluthunde"?

... that actress Rosamund Pike's London stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson?

... that in 1970 Derek Raymond published A State of Denmark, a dystopian novel in which England is led by a dictator called Jobling?