L. Morris' 2009 collection The Song of Songs: A Love Poem Illustrated presents a series of paintings that visualize the book. Theater and film Lillian Hellman's 1939 play The Little Foxes (and the 1941 film adaptation) gets its title from Song 2:15: "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." In Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath, a film about sexual repression in a puritanical Protestant family, the first few verses of Song of Songs chapter 2 are read aloud by the daughter Anne, but soon after her father forbids her to continue. The chapter's verse paraphrases Anne's own amorous adventures and desires. The 1986 Malayalam classic film Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal uses several verses from the Song of Songs which forms one of its major plot elements. The 2014 film The Song is based on the Song of Songs. The Jewish play The Dybbuk contains a recitation of the Song of Songs by Khanan's father when he is a young yeshiva boy. This becomes a major plot point in the play as it allows for the two lovers to identify the promise of marriage that their fathers made as classmates before departing. Several works have taken their name from the phrase "the voice of the turtle", found in (2:10-2:13). Novels Leon Garfield's masterwork The Pleasure Garden (1976) concludes with a reading of the first three chapters of the Song. Toni Morrison's 1977 novel is entitled Song of Solomon. Rose of Sharon (an epithet in the Song) is a major character in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. The song is mentioned repeatedly in Sholem Aleichem's Jewish Children In Elizabeth Smart's novel of prose poetry By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, several lines of the Song are spoken by the protagonist while she undergoes police questioning about her relationship with her companion, poet George Barker. In The Woman in the Window (1944), the character played by Edward G. Robinson reads The Song of Songs prior to his romantic entanglement with Joan Bennett. See also Dead Sea Scrolls 4Q106, 4Q107, 4Q108, 6Q6, fragments including portions of the Song of Songs. Hortus conclusus Ivory tower Notes References Barr, James, "Obituary: Harold Henry Rowley", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 33:2 (1970), pp. 372–373. Ausloos, Hans & Lemmelijn, Bénédicte, Praising God or Singing of Love?