Educating Rita - Understanding the Details

Willy Russell could have chosen any books and authors to reference in the play.  Why did he choose the ones that he did?  In order to figure out the answer to this question we need to know a little more about some of the authors and their works that are referenced by Frank and Rita.

Between you find out a little about...

T. S. Eliot and his poem 'J. Arthur Profrock'
E. M. Forster and the novel 'Howard's End'
The life and work of Roger McGough
W. B. Yeats and the poem 'The Wild Swans at Coole'
Rita Mae Brown and her novel 'Rubyfruit Jungle'
Henrik Ibsen and his play 'Peer Gynt'
Anton Checkhov and his play 'The Seagull'
Oscar Wilde and his play 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Bram Stoker and his novel 'Dracula'
D. H. Lawrence and his novels 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and 'Sons and Lovers'
William Blake and his collection of poems 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'
Mary Shelley and her novel 'Frankenstein'

Get on it...

Willy Russell

http://www.willyrussell.com/

You are going to create a resource about the author Willy Russell.

Collect biographical details about the author's life and works.

The above link is a good starting point but you can and should go beyond it.

Everyone posts two details about the author.  One about his life and one about his work.

There is not to be any repetition.
There is not to be any repetition.

This means you have to check all previous posts to make sure your information is 'new'.

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