The Players Come Again | Literary Precedents
In A Path to the Bridge (1958), author Brian Cooper used Cambridge as the background for a haunting tale of love during World War II. Two young men are attracted to the same woman, only later do they find out that she is the half-sister of one of the men.
The novel is also related to James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Virginia Woolf's The Waves (1931). It is also strongly connected to the legend of Ariadne. "Virginia Woolf and James Joyce: Ariadne and the Labyrinth," an essay by Carolyn Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), contained in Hamlet's...
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