Footnotes
- All italicized words are from Hamlet, except for Benton’s last words, which are from King Lear.
- The recently discovered original negative of Alfred Hitchcock’s suppressed Beauty and the Beast: An Idyll (working title) is believed to be based on Klopstock’s affair with Grace Kelly.
- See Hamlet, Act III, Scene II: “Polonius: I did enact Julius Caesar; I was killed in the Capitol; Brutus killed me. Hamlet: It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.”
- The name, in disguise, of the Earl of Kent, loyal servant to King Lear.
- Judith Rossner
- Malcolm Cowley
- Peter De Vries
- John Steinbeck
- Jimmy Breslin
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Dorothy Parker
- Edna Ferber