"O" in Literature by HensleyB

What Shakespeare character speaks the following line?

If music be the food of love, play on.

In what 1992 play is John's tenure threatened by a sexual harassment suit brought by his student Carol?

Name the Scottish bard whose works were supposedly translated by poet James Macpherson. It quickly became clear, however, that Macpherson himself was the author.

The widow Aya and her relationship with her schoolteacher niece form the basis of what 1981 set in Canada?

Manfred is the lord of what titular castle that provides the setting for a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole?

The following text has been excerpted from an essay by what author?

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

What 1901 novel subtitled "A Story of California" describes the tensions between a railway company and California wheat growers?

The satirical and metafictional novel "At Swim-Two-Birds" is the work of what author?

What novel of Walter Van Tilburg Clark tells the story of three travelers who are mistaken for cattle rustlers and hanged?

By what name are the plays "Agamemnon," "The Libation Bearers," and "The Eumenides" collectively known?

What 1890 short story, noted as an early example of stream of consciousness writing, tells of the hanging of Peyton Farquhar?

From what poem have the following lines been excerpted?

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!