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PhÃ¨dre, (Phaedra), written by Jean Racine Phèdre, (Phaedra), written by Jean Racine By Constance Jacoby The play, Phèdre,, or Phaedra, was written by Jean Racine (1639 – 1699) and took place at the Peloponnesus coast in Southern Greece. It was first performed in 1677. I have used many sources on the internet to research this play but found the most helpful and easiest source to understand to…
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- Phillis Wheatley, the First African American Published Book of Poetry September 1, 1773 Phillis Wheatley was only seven or eight years old when she was captured and taken from her home in West Africa. A slave ship brought her to Boston in 1761.
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Emile Zola One of Zola's first works published was his autobiographical La Confession de Claude (1865), which attracted many critics and brought negative attention to him including the police. Guilt and shame haunt Th r se Raquin (1867), another of Zola's works to inspire many film and television adaptations. Madeleine F rat was published a year later. Zola further explores the scientific model in Le Roman Experimental (The Experimental Novel) (1880). He next wrote his Les Trois Villes series consisting of Lourdes (1894), Rome (1896), and Paris (1898).
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Louis Racine The second son and the seventh and last child of the celebrated tragic dramatist Jean Racine, he was interested in poetry from childhood but was dissuaded from trying to make it his career by the poet Boileau on the grounds that the gift never existed in two successive generations.
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Medea  (play) This article is about the play by Euripides. For other plays of the same name, see Medea (disambiguation) . Medea (Ancient Greek: μήδεια, Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE.edea was first performed in 431 BCE at the City Dionysia festival. Here every year three playwrights competed against each other, each writing a tetralogy of four tragedies and a satyr play (alongside Medea were Philoctetes, Dictys and the satyr play Theristai).
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- Will he ever find a way to tell the people that he wants blueberry pie? And will they make him one? This book, originally published in 1961 by Jane Thayer, the pen name of Catherine Woolly, is representative of the high quality stories that were written for young children in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60's.
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- (Tragedy, Greek, 431 BCE, 1,419 lines). Medea (Gr: Medeia) is a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, and particularly Medea s revenge against Jason for betraying her with another woman.fter the adventures of the Golden Fleece, the Greek hero Jason took his wife Medea into exile at Corinth. However, he then left her, seeking to advance his political ambitions by marrying Glauce, the daughter of King Creon of Corinth.
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The Raft of the Medusa This article is about the painting. For the oratorio, see Das Floß der Medusa. For the film, see Le Radeau de la Méduse (film). The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.
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Carol Ryrie Brink : biography Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal. Life Born Caroline Ryrie on December 28, 1895, Moscow, Idaho, the only child of Alexander and Henrietta [Watkins] Ryrie Brink was orphaned by the age 8 and raised by her maternal grandmother, Caroline Watkins, the model for Caddie Woodlawn. Her grandmother’s life and storytelling abilities inspired her writing at an early age.
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Brendan Kennelly Brendan Kennelly. Brendan Kennelly was born in Co Kerry in 1936. He has published over thirty books of poetry.e is the author of a version of Euripides’ Medea (Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 1990, published by Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, UK, 1991); and Euripides’ The Trojan Women (Peacock Theatre, published by Bloodaxe Books, 1993). Many later poetry collections followed, and his most recent are published by Bloodaxe.
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Amy Carmichael ‘Iain Murray has written a superb account of this remarkable woman’s life . . . He has read her books and her poetry, and what he writes reveals a keen understanding of the motives and undertakings of an extraordinary woman. It warmed my heart and informed my mind . . .
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Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America.
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Study Material-1 The Trial of Dedan Kimathy. by. Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1938 – and . Micere Githae Mugo (1942 – Shashi Khurana. Bio-Literary Perspective of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o : Born in the village of Kamirrithu in 1938,Ngugi was known as James Ngugi until his symbolic decision in 1970 to reject his Christian name and revert to his Gikuyu name–Ngugi, son of Thiong’o
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Little, Brown and Company 21th century Edit. In October 5, 2005 Stephenie Meyer's debut novel, Twilight, was published. On September 6, 2006, Twilight's sequel, New Moon, was published, and on August 7, 2007, the third book of the Twilight series, Eclipse, was published.
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Literary Periods/Movements Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire) was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris. Voltaire's intelligence, wit and style made him one of France's greatest writers and philosophers.
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- Fetty Wap. Label Exec Charged With Attempted Murder in Shootout. A man who says he has ties to Fetty Wap has been charged with 2 counts of attempted murder in connection with the robbery and shootout in Paterson. Sylvester Huffin was charged Monday with 2… READ MORE >.
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- Marie Louise de la Ram e wrote A Dog of Flanders.he 3/4 retreat march, 'Bloody fields of Flanders', was written by John McLellan. Born in Dunoon, Scotland, on August 08, 1875, John (Jock) McLellan joined the Highland Ligh … t Infantry in 1892.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism... Get a FREE Books of the Moment sampler!
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- Wheatley grew up to be a poet. Her collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published on September 1, 1773. How did she become the first African American writer to publish a book of poetry, when most slaves were forbidden to learn to read and write? page 1 of 3
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Voltaire 1 Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, Voila voilà le roi qui'm envoie son linge a; à blanchir Reported'in Bartlett S, familiar quotations. ( 2 10th). 3  Ed 1919 toutes les, histoires anciennes comme le disait un de nos, beaux esprits ne sont que des.  fables convenues
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- To alleviate the boredom caused by a cold and wet summer in Geneva, Lord Byron proposed that each member of the summer's party write a ghost story. Those people included Mary and Percy Shelley, Claire Clairmont (Mary's stepsister), Byron, and his physician and friend, Joseph Pollidori. Each member undertook the task, but most quickly wearied of it. Pollidori actually conceived a vampire story, but his contribution was not well received by Byron.
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Who is Anne LaBastille? LaBastille’s life in her cabin on Black Bear Lake, which she built in 1965, has been likened to Thoreau’s life on Walden Pond. The first book in the trilogy, Woodswoman, was published in 1976. It was followed up by Beyond Black Bear Lake, which came out in 1987.
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- 'The American Woman's Cook Book edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, was originally published in 1939. The book has several editions. The World War II...
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Six of the best: versions of âSummertimeâ George Gershwin’s idea to write Porgy and Bess can be traced to 1926 when he first read the novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward, which was set on the fictitious Catfish Row in the Deep South. After signing a deal with the author, Gershwin began composing in 1934 and Heyward wrote the words to ‘Summertime’. The song appears more than once in the opera. Its first appearance is as a lullaby, sung by Clara, at the beginning of Act I and later it is sung by Bess.
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Medea  (play) Medea (Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the barbarian kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth.
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- Of all the accounts about Jason and the Argonauts, the most authoritative version came from Apollonius of Rhodes. His work titled the Argonautica, which was an epic poem written during the mid-3rd century BC.