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Just for the fun of it:

1. Brian de Palma, in "The Untouchables," has a whole scene of a baby buggy bouncing down a staircase and a man's glasses fall off and crack. What uncited source is he quoting?

2. Can you name another film that reproduces a scene from another film without citation?

3. Can you name a film that reproduces a scene from another artwork without citation and got nailed for copyright infringement?

4. Can you name another film that reproduces a scene from another artwork without citation and did not get nailed for copyright infringement?

5. "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" uses a passage of dialogue that closely resembles a passage from a Richard Bach book, without saying so. What passage from what book?

6. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" uses a passage of dialogue that closely resembles a passage from a Douglas Adams book, without saying so. What passage from what book?

7. Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea has something in common with what novel by another author? What is the nature of the relationship between the two books?

8. The following passage is from what novel by what author?

They are in the southern Latitudes at last, hence the need for Awnings,-- the shipboard routine settl'd into, the Boatswain, Mr. Higgs, turning ev'ryone to upon the Project of tidying up the work of the Riggers at Plymouth, who've left far too many Ends untuck'd for this Deck-Tyrant, born under the sign of Virgo, so obsessive about neatness in Knot-work, as to provide a source of Amusement for the Captain, who finds him an ideal Subject to practice being insane upon.

[Hint: the preceding paragraph runs thus:]

"Excuse me, Captain, problem with the Euphroes again."
"Get O'Brian up here, then, if it's abour Euphroes,he's the one to see."
Hey, t'en, Pat. Scribblin' again, are ye? More Sea stories?" Not only does O'Brian know all there is to know aboand more 'pon the Topick of Euphroes, and Rigging even more obscure,-- he's also acknowledg'd as the best Yarn-Spinner in all the Fleets. "Euphroe Detail again."


9. Visit this webpage. Which of the artworks depicted on this webpage is based upon another artwork? Which of these cited its source by name? What percentage of the original work was reused by the second work?

10(A). The following works of art are based upon what other work of art?

Jacopo Peri, "Euridice" (opera, 1600)
Claudio Monteverdi, "L'Orfeo" (opera, 1609)
John Milton, "Lycidas"(poem, 1637)
J. J. Löwe von Eisenach, "Orpheus aus Thracien" (opera, 1659)
J. P. Krieger "Orpheus und Euridice"(opera, 1683)
Draghi, "La lira d’Orfeo" (opera, 1683)
M.-A. Charpentier "La descente d’Orphée aux enfers"(opera, c. 1685)
L. Lully, "Orfeo" (opera, 1690)
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault, "Orphee" (opera, 1710)
Georg Philipp Telemann, "Orpheus" (opera, 1736)
Rameau, "Orphée aux enfers"(c. 1740)
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer,"Musikalischer Parnassus" (musical composition, c. 1738)
Christoph Willibald Gluck, "Orfeo ed Euridice" (opera, 1762)
Johann Gottlieb Naumann, "Orpheus og Eurydike" (opera, 1785)
Joseph Haydn, "L’anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice"(opera, 1791)
Paer, "Orphée et Euridice"(opera, 1791)
Winter, "La mort d’Orphée et d’Euridice"(opera, 1792)
Friedrich August Kanne, "Orpheus" (1807)
Hector Berlioz, "Monologue et bacchanale — La mort d'Orphée" (musical composition, 1827)
Franz Liszt, "Orpheus" (symphonic poem, 1854)
Jacques Offenbach, "Orpheus in the Underworld" (operetta, 1858)
Darius Milhaud, "Les malheurs d'Orphée" (musical composition, 1924)
Igor Stravinsky, "Orpheus" (ballet, 1948)
Harrison Birtwistle, "The Mask of Orpheus" (musical composition, 1986)
Philip Glass, "Orphee" (musical composition, 1993)
Angelo Poliziano, "Orfeo" (text, 16th c.)
Tennessee Williams, "Orpheus Descending" (play, 1957)
Jean Anouilh, "Eurydice" (play, 1941)
Jean Cocteau, "Orphée" (film, 1949)
Marcel Camus, "Black Orpheus/Orfeu Negro"(film, 1959)
Carlos Diegues, "Orfeu"(film, 1999)
Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus" (poems, 1921)
W H Auden, "The Dance of Death" (drama, 1933)
Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" (novel, 1973)
Poul Anderson, "Goat Song" (novelette, 1973)
Russell Hoban, "The Medusa Frequency" (novel, 1987)
Salman Rushdie, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (novel, 1999)
Neil Gaiman, "The Sandman" (character in a series of graphic novels, 1990s, 2000s)
U2, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (pop song, 2000)
Czeslaw Milosz, "Orpheus and Euridice" (poem, 2003)
Andy Partridge and Peter Blegvad, "Orpheus: The Lowdown" (musical composition, 2003)
Nick Cave, "The Lyre Of Orpheus" (pop song, 2004)
Joss Whedon, "Angel" (name of a drug in a TV series, 1999-2004)
White Wolf Game Studios, "Orpheus" (digital game, c. 2004)

10(B). Of the above list of works, which ones correctly cite Ovid, Pindar, the Orphic Poems, or other original sources in their footnotes?

10(C). Of the above list of works, which ones also are based on which other ones from the same list?

10(D). Of these, which ones correctly cite each other in their footnotes?

10(E). Can you name any other novels, poems, films, TV shows, musical compositions, advertising campaigns, games, or other creative products that also use this source material?