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  2. Tales from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" [1] while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible. [2] Mary Lamb was responsible for retelling the comedies and Charles the tragedies. [3] They omitted the more complex historical tales ...

  3. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...

  4. Category:Short stories by genre - Wikipedia

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    Children's short stories ‎ (3 C, 40 P) Christmas short stories ‎ (1 C, 40 P) Collaborative short stories ‎ (13 P) Comic short stories ‎ (15 P) Cyberpunk short stories ‎ (17 P)

  5. Category:19th-century short stories - Wikipedia

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    Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. 1800s short stories ‎ (1 C, 1 P) 1810s short stories ‎ (6 C) 1820s short stories ‎ (8 C, 1 P) 1830s short stories ‎ (10 C, 1 P) 1840s short stories ‎ (10 C) 1850s short stories ‎ (10 C, 1 P) 1860s short stories ‎ (10 C)

  6. Category:Short story collections by Margaret Atwood - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Short story collections by Margaret Atwood". The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    Narrative poetry. Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.

  8. Documentary theatre - Wikipedia

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    Documentary theatre. Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, journals, and correspondences) as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering the text in performance. The genre typically includes or is referred to as ...

  9. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    Used in English and French A Apéritifs with amuse-gueules Arête à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style ofà la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".