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79 imitation of them. Yet unlike these romantic heroes, the characters of Don Quixote worry about everyday concerns, such as foo ...

80 by his imagination into fearsome enemies, with whom he sees fit to engage in combat. Further complexity The gap between reali ...

81 La Mancha in central Spain is a dry but agriculturally important area, lacking in literary resonance and therefore an unlikel ...

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84 W hen William Shakespeare died, his friend and rival playwright Ben Jonson wrote that his works would prove “not of an age, b ...

85 little wonder then that the works of Shakespeare remain accessible to a broad audience; Shakespeare’s imaginative tales have ...

86 collected together and published as a whole. His Works appeared in 1616, the year of Shakespeare’s death, and its popularity ...

87 The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, here played by Harriet Walter, clasps the “worme” and succumbs to its bite, like a “lover’s pin ...

88 rivalry. Despite the differences, Shakespeare’s plays are connected through the dramatist’s desire to give voice to a sociall ...

89 convey this metamorphosis can only really ever be fully appreciated in performance, but readers will appreciate that Bottom’s ...

90 See also: Oedipus the King 34–39 ■ Candide 96–97 ■ Le Cid 103 ■ Phèdre 103– 04 ■ Pride and Prejudice 118–19 ■ The Picture of ...

91 See also: Metamorphoses 55–56 ■ Les Amours de Cassandre 74 ■ Paradise Lost 103 ■ The Waste Land 213 T he term “metaphysical p ...

92 See also: The Tale of Genji 47 ■ On the Road 264–65 M atsuo Bashoˉ (c.1644– 1694) of Edo (modern Tokyo) was the master of the ...

93 See also: First Folio 82–89 ■ The Well Cradle 102 ■ The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 263 K abuki and Bunraku are both forms ...

94 I WAS BORN IN THE YEAR 1632 IN THE CITY OF YORK OF A GOOD FAMILY ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719), DANIEL DEFOE C onstructing the narra ...

95 See also: Gulliver’s Travels 104 ■ Tom Jones 104 ■ David Copperfield 153 ■ The Catcher in the Rye 256–57 RENAISSANCE TO ENLIG ...

96 IF THIS IS THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS WHAT ARE THE OTHERS? CANDIDE (1759), VOLTAIRE A diverse group of writers and intel ...

97 See also: Gulliver’s Travels 104 ■ Jacques the Fatalist 105 RENAISSANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT violent misadventures, and an eventu ...

98 I HAVE COURAGE ENOUGH TO WALK THROUGH HELL BAREFOOT THE ROBBERS (1781), FRIEDRICH SCHILLER T he Sturm und Drang movement (oft ...