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Requiem for a Nun, the Glossary

Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner.^[1]

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Novels by William Faulkner

A More Perfect Union (speech)

"A More Perfect Union" is the title of a speech delivered by then-Senator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008, in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.

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American Quarterly

American Quarterly is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Brothel

A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Character (arts)

In fiction, a character or personage, is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game).

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Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.

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De minimis

De minimis is a Latin expression meaning "pertaining to minimal things" or "with trifles", normally in the terms de minimis non curat praetor ("The praetor does not concern himself with trifles") or de minimis non curat lex ("The law does not concern itself with trifles"), a legal doctrine by which a court refuses to consider trifling matters.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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Fair use

Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.

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Fiction

Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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Gavin Stevens (character)

Gavin Stevens is a lawyer and the county attorney in Jefferson in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

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Gene D. Phillips

Gene D. Phillips, S.J. (March 3, 1935 – August 29, 2016) was an American author, educator, and Catholic priest.

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Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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John Golden Theatre

The John Golden Theatre, formerly the Theatre Masque and Masque Theater, is a Broadway theater at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Liviu Ciulei

Liviu Ciulei (7 July 1923 – 24 October 2011) was a Romanian theater and film director, film writer, actor, architect, educator, costume and set designer.

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.

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Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.

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Mary Alice

Mary Alice Smith (December 3, 1936 – July 27, 2022), known professionally as Mary Alice, was an American television, film, and stage actress.

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Maurice Coindreau

'Maurice-Edgar Coindreau (December 24, 1892 – October 20, 1990) was a literary critic and translator of fiction from English into French and Spanish.

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Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Nanny

A nanny is a person who provides child care.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Oscar Strasnoy

Oscar Strasnoy (born November 12, 1970) is a French-Argentine composer, conductor and pianist.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.

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Popeye (Faulkner character)

Popeye is a character in William Faulkner's 1931 novel Sanctuary.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Requiem for a Nun (play)

Requiem for a Nun (Requiem pour une nonne) is a play by Albert Camus, adapted from William Faulkner's 1951 novel of the same name.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, London, England.

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Rum-running

Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.

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Sam Edwards

Sam George Edwards (May 26, 1915 – July 28, 2004) was an American actor.

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Sanctuary (1961 film)

Sanctuary is a 1961 drama film directed by Tony Richardson.

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Sanctuary (Faulkner novel)

Sanctuary is a 1931 novel by American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. Requiem for a Nun and Sanctuary (Faulkner novel) are novels by William Faulkner and novels set in Mississippi.

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Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles (born 31 December 1941) is a retired English actress.

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Sequel

A sequel is a work of literature, film, theater, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics Inc. is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Sony Pictures.

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Teatro Colón

The Teatro Colón (Columbus Theatre) is a historic opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Temple Drake

Temple Drake is a fictional character created by William Faulkner.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Story of Temple Drake

The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stephen Roberts and starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue.

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Time travel

Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future.

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Tony Richardson

Cecil Antonio Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director, producer and screenwriter, whose career spanned five decades.

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University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university in University, Mississippi, with a medical center in Jackson.

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University of Tennessee Press

The University of Tennessee Press is a university press associated with the University of Tennessee.

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University Press of Mississippi

The University Press of Mississippi (UPM), founded in 1970, is a university press that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi (i.e., Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Southern Mississippi), making it one of the few university presses in the United States to have more than one affiliate university.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Nun

, Time travel, Tony Richardson, University of Mississippi, University of Tennessee Press, University Press of Mississippi, West Lafayette, Indiana, William Faulkner, Woodbury, Nassau County, New York, Worcester Public Schools, Yoknapatawpha County.

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Novels by William Faulkner

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