LITERARY LOVERS MINI-RESEARCH TOPICS Shakespearean Couples 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 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 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-fated-literary-couples

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