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Eugene Schieffelin – Scientist of the Day

Eugene Schieffelin, a New York City pharmacist and drug manufacturer, was born Jan. 29, 1827.

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References in Penny Dreadful

Characters from:

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Literature within the show:

THEATER:

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Proteus is named after one of the characters of the play)

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (Brand quotes it)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (The Creature gets the name Caliban from here. Young Vanessa names a bird after Ariel)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (this one is actually funny, because a witch quotes a line of one of the witches, and I enjoyed the parallelism)

Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare (Vanessa says she first met Joan of Arc in Shakespeare, this is the play where she appears)

The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller (Vanessa says she read this play about Joan of Arc, calling it just "the Schiller")

Sweeney Todd by Thomas Prest (?) (represented at the theater)

POETRY:

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Frankenstein has the book)

Adonais by Percy B. Shelley (The Creature mentions it)

Wordsworth's Poetical Works (Young Frankenstein has the book)

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

The Poetical Works of Milton (The Creature gifts this book to Maude)

Paradise Lost by John Milton (Maud then says that The Creature's gift was this book, which has me confused but ok)

NOVEL:

Up North in a Whaler by Edward A. Rand (Frankenstein has the book)

Varney The Vampire (a Penny Dreadful that Professor Van Helsing gives to Victor)

One Thousand and One Nights (Mister Lyle mentions Aladdin, so let's say he got the reference from here)

The Bible (though it is odd to categorize it as a novel, but please allow me to do it for the sake of order)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Mister Lyle says to feel like a Lilliputian next to Ethan)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne (Dracula is a fan)

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (The Creature's kid is reading this book)

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (The Creature read this to Vanessa in his past life :( )

Also mentioned:

John Keats (poet)

William Wordsworth (poet. He's a fav of the doctor's. Also the Creature's)

John Clare (poet. He's a fav of the Creature's)

Alfred Tennyson (poet. He dies. That's the only thing he does)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)

William Makepeace Thackeray (writer)

Charles Dickens (writer. Most of these are mentioned by Mister Lyle)

Ibsen (playwright)

Henry Irving (actor)

Wagner (musician)

Audubon (painter)

I've also posted the specific poems that are quoted throughout the series.

I'd have liked to post the art that is shown (Dorian Gray has a marvelous collection), but alas, I'm quite ignorant of art, and I find it far more difficult to find than the rest of the references that I include here.

If I've missed any, please do let me know. I want this list to be as thorough as possible.

I've really enjoyed this show...

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Second Page. I' faith, i' faith; and both in a tune, like two gipsies on a horse.

SONG.

It was a lover and his lass,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

That o'er the green corn-field did pass

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,

When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:

Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

These pretty country folks would lie,

In spring time, &c.

This carol they began that hour,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

How that a life was but a flower

In spring time, & c.

And therefore take the present time,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;

For love is crowned with the prime

In spring time, & c.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, As You Like It (Act V, Scene III)

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Illustration from Judge Magazine by Sidney Delevante (Sept. 1925)

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Night; and Day by Edward Robert Hughes (English, 1851-1914)

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 1926 by Frank Cadogan Cowper (English, 1877–1958)

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The Battle of Flowers by Robert Anning Bell (English, 1863–1933) 

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Hundreds of Fantastic Creatures Inhabit a Sprawling Universe by Vorja Sánchez

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

"The Mulberry Tree," 1889

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I want to read your heart cover to cover.

I know it doesn’t matter how many times you’re told you’re beautiful, you’re not going to believe it until you hear it from the one, but we’re all just outsiders and my love wasn’t looking for a way in. your smile is the watercolors I left in the rain, and though we’ve tangled your thoughts in the tunnel of a salted prayer, my entire life is a symptom of missing you.

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Back Of Princess Beatrice. Detail Of A Photo Postcard, Circa 1918 photo from Derin Bray's collection

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The Morning Stars by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1887)

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Cupid and Psyche by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1767)

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Vintage and antique love tokens 

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Andrea Torres Balaguer

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New Zealand's Goblin Forest

Honoured to have received some wonderful results from this year’s @greatwalksmag Wilderness Photographer of the Year competition, including a win for ‘Creatures in the Shadows’ (photo 1)

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