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While P.B. Shelley is famous for his lyrical drama 'Prometheus Unbound', the Greek playwright Aeschylus wrote the original trilogy including a play by this name. The source answer selects Aeschylus.
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Robert Greene was one of the 'University Wits', a group of late 16th-century English playwrights who were educated at the universities (Oxford or Cambridge). Shakespeare was not.
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'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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'India Wins Freedom' is the political autobiography of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a senior leader of the Indian independence movement.
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'Animal Farm' is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, published in 1945, which satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union.
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'Vanity Fair' is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
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William Makepeace Thackeray wrote 'Vanity Fair', a satirical novel about English society during the Napoleonic Wars.
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'Pride and Prejudice' is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, published in 1813. It is one of the most popular novels in English literature.
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote 'The Canterbury Tales', a masterpiece of Middle English literature.
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In context of literary criticism about Chaucer, his work is often described as 'fruitful', appealing, or relevant. The provided key selects 'fruitful', implying it continues to bear meaning and value.