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  2. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a ...

  3. The Son of Umbele - Wikipedia

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    Synopsis. The Son of Umbele is a tragedy played out in front of the home of a fisherman [1] in which the principal character, Joshua, becomes the victim of his own flaws. The play is in three acts. The first act introduces us to the household of Sumako and his children with their sick mother. The second act is about the love affair between ...

  4. Greek tragedy - Wikipedia

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    The tragedy usually begins with a prologue, (from pro and logos, "preliminary speech") in which one or more characters introduce the drama and explain the background of the ensuing story. The prologue is followed by the parodos (entry of the characters/group) (πάροδος), after which the story unfolds through three or more episodes ...

  5. The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia

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    In 1968, on their Four Fairy Tales and Other Children's Stories album, the Pickwick Players performed a version of this story that is actually a version of "The King's New Clothes" from the film Hans Christian Anderson. In this version, two swindlers trick the Emperor into buying a nonexistent suit, only for a boy to reveal the truth in the end.

  6. Didacticism - Wikipedia

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    Didacticism. Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. [1][2][3] In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is a conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to explain. [3]

  7. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. [1] Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended ...

  8. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences. Peter L. Berger says human life is narratively rooted, humans construct their lives and shape their world into homes in terms of these groundings and memories. Stories are universal in that they can bridge cultural, linguistic and age-related divides.

  9. For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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    t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1][2] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as ...