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'As You Like It' is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare. The other options (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet) are famous tragedies.
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'The Taming of the Shrew' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.
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Jonathan Swift is considered the greatest prose satirist in the English language, famous for works like 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'A Modest Proposal'.
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Traditionally, Shakespearean plays are structured in five acts, a format derived from Roman models like Seneca, though Shakespeare didn't always strictly divide them himself.
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'Gulliver's Travels' is a satire by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726. It is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the 'travellers' tales' literary subgenre.
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'The Rape of the Lock' is a mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope. It satirizes a small incident in high society by treating it with epic grandeur.
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This famous line is from Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711). It highlights the fallibility of humans and the virtue of forgiveness.
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Sir Walter Scott wrote the poem 'Patriotism' (often known by its famous lines 'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead...'). He is also famous for his historical novels.
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The poem titled 'Patriotism' (specifically the extract beginning 'Breathes there the man...') is from 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' by Sir Walter Scott.
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'Ivanhoe' is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1820. It is set in 12th-century England and is one of his most popular works.