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The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters, are pivotal characters in Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’. Their prophecies regarding Macbeth becoming King drive the plot of the tragedy.
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The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme), a French poet and essayist, for his poetic composition and lofty idealism.
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Charles Dickens's novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The title explicitly refers to these two capital cities and their contrasting fates.
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The Victorian Age is named after Queen Victoria, who reigned over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. It was a period of immense industrial, political, scientific, and military change in Britain.
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This optimistic line is the conclusion of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’. It symbolizes hope and the cyclical nature of life, suggesting that bad times (winter) are followed by good (spring).
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Samuel Johnson is credited with writing ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ (1755), which was the first significant and comprehensive dictionary, setting the standard for the English language.
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‘The Arabian Nights’ is a collection of folk tales with no single author. However, Sir Richard Burton is famous for his comprehensive and unexpurgated English translation published in the Victorian era.
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‘Paradise Lost’ is an epic poem written by John Milton. Published in 1667, it concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan.
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This line is from Sophocles' tragedy ‘King Oedipus’ (Oedipus Rex). It is spoken by the blind prophet Teiresias, who knows the terrible truth about Oedipus's identity but is reluctant to reveal it.
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‘Hamlet’ is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1601. It is one of his most popular works and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.