Vorticist. Danish author Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) has a story within the tale titled "The Deluge of Norderney" in her Seven Gothic Tales (1934). It tells about a Hamlet-like figure, called Timon of Assens , who comes from the Danish town of Assens. Vladimir Nabokov borrowed the title for his novel Pale Fire (1962) from this quotation of Timon's in act IV, scene III: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun... A copy of Timon of Athens features variously in the plot of Pale Fire and, at one point, the quotation above is amusingly mistranslated from the fictional language of Zemblan, a trademark prank of the polyglot Nabokov. The theme of thievery to which Timon is alluding is also a principal theme of Pale Fire, referring to Charles Kinbote's misappropriation of the poem by the deceased John Shade that forms part of the novel's structure. Notes References Butler, Francelia. The Strange Critical Fortunes of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1966. Oliver, H. J., ed. Timon of Athens. The Arden Shakespeare. Surrey: Methuen and Company, 1959. External links , modern edited text by the Folger Shakespeare Library Timon of Athens''Original spelling and Facsimiles from the Internet Shakespeare Editions 1607 plays 1608 plays British plays adapted into films Shakespearean tragedies Plays by Thomas Middleton English Renaissance plays Plays set in ancient Greece Tragedy plays Plays set in Athens Plays set in the 5th century BC