Robyn Douglass - Katherine

Michael Jayston - Jack Donovan

The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it. That such a modern work should have been written in the eleventh century is a miracle, and as a miracle the work is widely known abroad.

Carlos Gómez - Miguel

Alan Marshal - Robert Landis

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049584/al-Maarri Profile in Encyclopædia Britannica]

Dream of the Red Chamber

[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

M. R. Kale, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53790/page/n235/mode/2up Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava Cantos I-VII] (Bombay: Standard Publishing Co., 1917)

We have hereafter only two roads to choose: one is to embrace the ancient literature and die, the other is to forsake the ancient literature and live.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

In the whole world of Greek antiquity there is no poetical representation of beautiful love which approaches even afar.

Seizaburô Kawazu - Seibei

Juliet Stevenson — Paula Paxton

Chin Tsi-ang - The amah (female servant)