Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 5

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... that the Olivier, the Lyttelton, and the Cottesloe are the three stages housed by the Royal National Theatre (pictured) on London's South Bank?

... that the Dursleys live at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, England?

... that Een lied van schijn en wezen is a 1981 novel by Cees Nooteboom about an author who creates his story around the sentence, "The colonel falls in love with the doctor's wife"?

... that μαιευτική τέχνη (maieutics), a method of teaching introduced by Socrates, is based on the idea that the truth is latent in the mind of every human being due to his innate reason but has to be "given birth" by questions asked by the teacher and answers given by the student?

... that Manderley is the house which plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's novel, Rebecca (1938), and that as a result of the novel's popularity, the name "Manderley" became extremely popular as a name for ordinary houses, at one time being the most common house name in the United Kingdom?

... that Amongst Barbarians is a 1989 play by Michael Wall set in Penang, Malaysia, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking?

... that Ignatius J. Reilly is the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, written in the 1960s and published posthumously in 1980?