Master Harold... and the boys Allusions

Literary and Philosophical References

• William Shakespeare (544)
• William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (547)
• Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (566-592, 644-645)
• Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, War and Peace (579)
• Alexandre Dumas (625)
• Karl Marx (625)
• Dostoevsky (625-626)
• Nietzsche (626)
• Plato (630)
• Freud (632-634)
• Sir Alexander Fleming, The Microbe Hunters (629-642)

Historical References

• Leonardo da Vinci (362)
• Joan of Arc (389-392)
• Winston Churchill (443-444, 584)
• Napoleon (469-498)
• Charles Darwin (504-534)
• Abraham Lincoln (535)
• William Wilberforce (540-541)
• Jesus Christ (596-614)
• Mohammed (604-608)
• Socrates (625)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1426-1429)
• General Smuts (1481) Jan Smuts, former military leader and Prime Minister of South Africa

Pop Culture References

• Fred Astaire (81, 751)
• Ginger Rogers (81, 91, 751)
• Sarah Vaughan (95)
• Count Basie (150, 178-180, 185-190)
• Jungle Jim (261)
• Batman and Robin (261-262, 1514)
• Tarzan (262)
• Joe Louis (746-748) African-American boxer who defeated German boxer Max Schmeling and became a hero to blacks in the U.S and South Africa.
• Max Schmeling (749-750)
• Rita Hayworth (752)
• Submariner (1514)