A list of hypotexts in Ever After
The texts given in the list below have been put into chronological order vis-à-vis the novel. The list only notes the first occurence of a pre-text, not any possible repetitions of single passages. The intertextual references given here all point to a concrete text other than the hypertext, including the notebooks of Matthew Pierce (although the notebooks are, strictly speaking, different from the hypertext). They are all so-called hetero-intertextual references. The list does not include proverbs, or any texts whose presence in the hypertext is subject to discussion ('aleatory pre-texts'). It claims to give all those pre-texts which are very clearly integrated into Ever After and which are marked in some form or other (quotation marks, italics, separate paragraphs etc.). However, for the reasons given above, the list can only be understood as a help towards estimating the kind and dimensions of intertextuality in this novel. Every new reading process will allow for a new intertextual reading.
The pagination refers to Graham Swift, Ever After (London: Picador, 1992).
| Ever After | ||
|---|---|---|
| page | Text | Source |
| motto | ... et mentem mortalia tangunt | Vergil, Aeneid: I, 462 |
| 3 | I feel like the ghost of Troilus at the end of Chaucer's poem | Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde |
| 4 | I have imagined myself (...) as Hamlet | Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| 13 | (mentioned) | Giaccomo Puccini, La Bohème |
| 18/19 | Dove so-ono i bei momenti ... di dolce-ezza e di piacer...? | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (Rosina's aria at the beginning of act III) |
| 32 | Who is Sil-via? What is she-e...? | Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona: IV.2.38 |
| 46 | Amor Vincit Omnia | Vergil, Eclogues: 10, 69 |
| 57 | Let... the wide arch of the ranged empire fall | Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost: I.1.1 (at the same time: Antony and Cleopatra: I.1.33 f.) |
| 57 | (mentioned) | John Dryden, All for Love, or The World Well Lost |
| 64 | Now might I do it pat... | Shakespeare, Hamlet: III.3.73 |
| 71 | My true love hath my heart and I have his. | Sir Philip Sidney, Song no. 45 (sonnet) from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia), "Third Book or Act" |
| 71 | Even such is time (etc.) | Sir Walter Raleigh, lines which he supposedly wrote on the eve of his execution (1618); they are, with little changes, from a stanza of his love poem, "Nature that washt her hands in milk" |
| 72 | You would pluck out the heart of my mystery... | Shakespeare, Hamlet: III.2.356 f. |
| 77 | I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did, till we lov'd...? | John Donne, "The Good-Morrow" |
| 78 | Jack shall have Jill; nought shall go ill. | Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream: III.2.461 f. |
| 81 | Like Paolo and Francesca over the story of Lancelot | Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Hell, 5th song |
| 85 | springes to catch woodcocks | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.3.115 |
| 86 | (mentioned) | Edouard Manet, "Déjeuner sur l'herbe" |
| 88 | Under the Indian bean tree, who loves to lie with me. | Shakespeare, As You Like It: II.5.1 f. |
| 93 | And the little hills rejoice on every side... | Bible, psalm 65,12 |
| 111 | I am again for Cydnus to meet Mark Antony. | Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: V.2.227 f. |
| 115 | Finish, good lady, the bright day is done, and we are for the dark. | Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: V.2.192 f. |
| 116 | Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. | Shakespeare, As You Like It: IV.1.101ff. |
| 117 | Give me my robe, put on my crown... | Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: V.2.279 |
| 119 | I have immortal longings... | Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: V.2.279 f. |
| 120 | Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill. | Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost: V.2.864 f. |
| 121 | Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies a lass unparallel'd. | Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: V.2.314 f. |
| 131 | Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. | Vergil, Georgics: 2, 490 |
| 133 | And the firmament sheweth his handywork. | Psalm 19, 1 |
| 133 | Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. | Psalm 30, 5 |
| 136 | sub specie aeternitatis | Spinoza, Ethica: 5, 29 ff. passim. |
| 138 | Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed; and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. | Psalm 46, 2 |
| 138 | And herb for the service of man | Psalm 104, 14 |
| 141 | O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. | Psalm 104, 24 |
| 143 | For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. | Shakespeare, Hamlet: II.2.249 f. |
| 143 | What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba? | Shakespeare, Hamlet: II.2.553 |
| 148 | Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead... | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.2.101 f. |
| 156 | the funeral baked meats... | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.2.180 |
| 170 | We are prepared, therefore, to find (etc.) | Charles Lyell, Elements of Geology (1855) |
| 175 | Qui quaerit, invenit. | St. Luke 11, 10 |
| 188 | At genus immortale manet, multosque per annos/ Stat fortuna domus... | Vergil, Georgics: 4, 208 f. |
| 194 | Who's there? | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.1.1 |
| 194 | Angels and ministers of grace defend us! | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.4.39 |
| 194 | 'Armed, say you?' - 'Armed, my lord.' - 'From top to toe?' - 'My lord, from head to foot...' | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.2.226 f. |
| 195 | ''Tis here.' - ''Tis here.' - ''Tis gone...' | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.1.145 ff. |
| 198 | Millais' famous painting (...) There he sits, hands clasping his drawn-up velveteen knees (etc.) | John Everett Millais, "The Boyhood of Raleigh" |
| 203 | Si monumentum requiris... | Christopher Wren, epitaph for his father, Sir Christopher Wren, in St. Paul's Cathedral |
| 205 | To be or - | Shakespeare, Hamlet: III.1.56 |
| 212 | Cuckoo! Cuckoo! | Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost: V.2.891 |
| 212 | (mentioned) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cosi fan tutte |
| 225 f. | The weather is quite delicious. (etc.) | Charles Darwin, Letters |
| 231 | Berowne and Longaville and Dumaine: 'a little academe, still and contemplative in living art... | Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost: [names of characters (and quotation)] I.1.13 f. |
| 231 | Worthies, away!... | Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost: V.2.712 |
| 232 | O brave new world! | Shakespeare, The Tempest: V.1.183 |
| 232 | (mentioned) | Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World |
| 232 | Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,/ Live regist'red... | Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost: I.1.1f. |
| 232 | Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death, and danger dare... | Shakespeare, Hamlet: IV.4.51 f. |
| 232 | Who am I? | Shakespeare, King Lear: I.4.83 |
| 233 | Our mothers' wombes the tiring houses be (etc.) | Sir Walter Raleigh, "On the Life of Man" |
| 234 | Full many a glorious morning have I seen (etc.) | Shakespeare, from sonnet no. 18 |
| 234 | Timor mortis conturbat me. | Psalm 55, 5 |
| 240 | (mentioned) | Alfred Tennyson, "Idylls of the King" |
| 246 | the true, chaste knight, a true Sir Galahad! (...) The wizard Merlin | King Arthur legends (particularly in the version of Chrétien de Troyes) |
| 249 | Why seems it so particular with thee? | Shakespeare, Hamlet: I.2.75 |
| 249 | Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all...? | Shakespeare, King Lear: V.3.306 f. |