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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Created by: William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, eagerly anticipating his marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of t...
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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Created by: Ignatius SanchoIgnatius Sancho used the medium of letters to record his thoughts on many of the major political, economic and cultural...
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Oroonoko
Created by: Aphra BehnOroonoko overview Oroonoko is a short novel, styling itself ‘a true history’, set in the English colony of Surinam in th...
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Paradise Lost
Created by: John MiltonParadise Lost overview Paradise Lost is an epic poem (12 books, totalling more than 10,500 lines) written in blank verse...
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Created by: William BlakeA collection of poems by William Blake (1757-1827), illustrated with the poet's own etchings and published in 1789. In t...
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The Rape of the Lock
Created by: Alexander PopeThe Rape of the Lock overview Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a poem of five cantos, written in rhyming couplet...
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