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Jonathan Swift is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, best known for "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Modest Proposal."
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A monologue is a speech given by a single character in a story. In drama, it is a speech in which a character, who is alone on stage (or thinks they are), speaks their thoughts aloud.
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"Dr. Faustus" was written by Christopher Marlowe, not William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
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Alex Haley is the author of "Roots: The Saga of an American Family." The novel and subsequent miniseries were cultural phenomena in the 1970s.
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Caliban is a savage, enslaved character in William Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'. He is the son of the witch Sycorax and serves the protagonist, Prospero.
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O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, an American writer famous for his short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, and surprise endings.
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'Mukhra Ramani Bashikaran' by Munier Choudhury is a Bengali translation of William Shakespeare's comedy play 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
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The Renaissance is widely considered to have begun in Florence, Italy, in the 14th century, fueled by the patronage of the Medici family and a revival of classical learning.
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'Romeo and Juliet' is one of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, depicting the ill-fated love of two young people from feuding families.
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's 'Bhranti Bilas' is a Bengali adaptation of William Shakespeare's play 'The Comedy of Errors', focusing on mistaken identities.