The Turn of the Screw (opera) used in the lesson scene have been examined in more detail for their paedophilic innuendos. The line "The ceremony of innocence is drowned" sung by Quint and Miss Jessel is taken from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. Notes Cited sources Other sources The Turn of the Screw (opera) The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) faces of Boris, Zinovy, and Fyodor in the water. The two women briefly resurface, still alive, but Katerina grabs Sonya, and they both drown. Leskov's story inspired an opera of the same name by Dmitri Shostakovich, ballet "Lady Macbeth '77 (Katarina Izmailova)" by Yugoslav composer Rudolf Brucci, the 1962 Yugoslavian film "Sibirska Ledi Magbet" ("Siberian Lady Macbeth") directed by Andrzej Wajda, 1989 Soviet film "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" by Roman Balayan, and the 2016 British film by William Oldroyd, "Lady Macbeth". Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo