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Shakespeare wrote Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories (Tragio-drama). "Bourgeois drama" generally refers to a later genre (18th century) focusing on the middle class, which is not his classification.
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"The Comedy of Errors" is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is a farcical comedy involving two sets of identical twins and mistaken identities.
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This line is found in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (Act 5, Scene 2). Hamlet says it to Horatio, acknowledging that fate or God guides human destiny regardless of their plans.
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John Milton is considered the greatest English epic poet, primarily for his masterpiece "Paradise Lost," which retells the biblical story of the Fall of Man.
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John Milton is the most famous epic poet in English literature, known for "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained."
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A lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries. The word comes from the Greek 'lexikon' (dictionary) and 'graphein' (to write).
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Sir Walter Scott wrote the historical novel "Ivanhoe," published in 1819. It is set in 12th-century England and explores the tensions between Saxons and Normans.
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Henry Fielding is often considered the father of the English novel (alongside Richardson) for developing the novel as a serious artistic genre with works like "Tom Jones."
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Samuel Johnson published "A Dictionary of the English Language" in 1755. It was the first reliable and comprehensive dictionary, setting the standard for English lexicography.
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John Milton wrote the pastoral elegy "Lycidas" in 1637. It was dedicated to the memory of his friend Edward King, who had drowned in a shipwreck.