Daniel Deronda Allusions

Literary and Philosophical References

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1.6)
• John Keats, " Lamia " (1.19)
• Moliere, Les Préciuses Ridicules (4.Epigraph)
• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Clerk's Tale (4.1)
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth (4.5)
• William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (5.Epigraph)
• Goethe, Faust (5.11)
• William Shakespeare (5.17; 16.10)
• William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (5.25)
• Alexander Pope (5.50)
• Fontenelle, Pluralité des Mondes (6.Epigraph)
• William Shakespeare, Othello (6.15; 29.64)
• William Browne, Brittania's Pastorals (6.23; 52.5)
• Jean Racine (6.28)
• Homer, The Iliad (6.32, 10.25)
• William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (6.34; 31.Epigraph)
• Edmund Spenser, Shepheard's Calendar (7.Epigraph)
• Charles Lamb, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (7.Epigraph)
• Calypso, from Homer, The Odyssey (10.6)
• Apollo, Greek god of light, sun, truth, archery, and more! (10.10)
• George Gordon, Lord Byron (11.48; 16.43)
• Sir Joshua Reynolds, Nineteenth-century British painter (11.56)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer, Opera Composer (11.81)
• Eugene Scribe, Opera Librettist (11.81)
• Robin Hood and Maid Marian (11.109)
• William Shakespeare, Henry IV (12.Epigraph)
• William Cowper, Seventeenth-century British poet (13.23)
• Theocritus, Idylls (14.1)
• William Shakespeare, As You Like It (14.33)
• Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (15.Epigraph)
• Diana, Goddess of the hunt, the moon, and chastity (15.21)
• Peter Lely (16.8)
• Sir Godfrey Kneller (16.8)
• Leibnitz (16.40)
• Richard Porson (16.40)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (16.57)
• Charles Lamb (16.60)
• Hans Holbein (16.60; 39.36)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall (17.Epigraph)
• William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (17.2)
• Titian (17.2)
• Friedrich Schiller (18.10)
• The Book of Revelations (18.10)
• Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey (19.Epigraph)
• Aeschylus, The Oresteia (19.2)
• William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (22.1)
• Homer, The Odyssey (22.7; 37.Epigraph)
• Felix Mendelssohn (22.8)
• Franz Schubert (22.19)
• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (23.67)
• William Wordsworth, " The Affliction of Margaret " (24.Epigraph)
• La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (28.Epigraph; 52.Epigraph)
• Walt Whitman, " Vocalism " (29.Epigraph)
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest (29.41)
• Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (32.8)
• Sophocles, Antigone (32.45)
• Ludwig von Beethoven (32.57)
• Heinrich Heine, "Prinzessin Sabbath" (34.Epigraph)
• La Fontaine, Fables (36.Epigraph)
• Homer (37.16)
• John Milton (37.35)
• William Shakespeare, King John (37.104)
• William Shakespeare, King Lear (37.104)
• Prometheus (38.Epigraph)
• Baruch de Spinoza (38.2)
• Jehuda ha-Levi, Hebrew poet (38.12)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, " West-östlicher Divan "
• William Wordsworth, The Excursion (40.Epigraph)
• Titian, Tribute Money (40.18)
• Aristotle, Poetics (41.Epigraph)
• John Milton, Paradise Regained (41.3)
• Leopold Zunz, Die Synagogale Poesie des Mittelalters (42.Epigraph)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (42.37)
• Sir Walter Scott (42.39)
• Voltaire (42.70)
• John Keats, "Sonnet on Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (43.Epigraph)
• Montaigne, On Friendship (46.Epigraph)
• William Wordsworth, "A Poet's Epitaph" (47.Epigraph)
• Medusa (48.93)
• Robert Browning, "Paracelsus" (50.Epigraph)
• Dante, Inferno (50.16; 55.Epigraph)
• George Eliot, "Erinna" (51.Epigraph)
• Rembrandt (52.3)
• Psalm 74 (52.3)
• Janus, Roman god of doorways (52.3)
• Gainsborough (52.6)
• Schiller, Don Carlos (52.57)
• William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (53.Epigraph)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Cenci" (54.Epigraph)
• Dante, Purgatorio (54.1; 64.Epigraph)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, " Rime of the Ancient Mariner " (56.Epigraph)
• Marcus Aurelius (57.Epigraph)
• Nicholas Breton, "Phillida and Coridon" (58.Epigraph)
• William Shakespeare, Richard II (59.Epigraph)
• Jeremy Taylor, "Via intelligentiae: A Sermon Preached to the University of Dublin, shewing by what means the scholars shall become most learned and most useful." (60.Epigraph)
• John Milton, Areopagitica (60.6)
• Guido Guinicelli, Canzone (61.Epigraph)
• Heinrich Heine, " Lamentations " (62.Epigraph)
• Heinrich Heine, "Geständnisse" (63.Epigraph)
• John Milton, Comus (65.Epigraph)
• Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book (66.Epigraph)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Love" (68.Epigraph)
• William Wordsworth, The Prelude (69.Epigraph)
• The Book of Ruth (70.13)
• John Milton, Samson Agonistes (70.15)

Historical References

• Saint Cecilia (3.18)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (6.12)
• Henry the Eighth (16.8)
• Christopher Columbus (16.12; 41.10)
• Pericles, Ancient Greek Statesman (16.12; 16.40)
• George Washington (16.40)
• Napoleon III (34.20)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (41.3)
• Galileo Galilei (4.3)
• Moses ben Maimon (43.7)
• Oliver Cromwell (46.1)
• St. Francis of Assisi (46.1)
• Maimonides (52.3)

Pop Culture References

• Jenny Lind (5.31)