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  2. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...

  3. Short story - Wikipedia

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    Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

  4. The Drover's Wife (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Drover's Wife is a 1945 painting by Australian artist Russell Drysdale. While the painting does not specifically illustrate a scene from the story, it takes its title from it. Murray Bail 's story, "The Drover's Wife" (1975), is based on Drysdale's painting and is narrated by the woman's first husband. [1]

  5. Child labour - Wikipedia

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    "The Little Match Girl", a short story by Hans Christian Andersen that was later adapted into films and other media. Gunjal, a film by Shoaib Sultan based on the child labour activist Iqbal Masih tragic murder. See also. Organised labour portal; Lewis Hine used photography to help bring attention to child labour in America. He created this ...

  6. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    For centuries, child nudity was common in paintings that depicted allegorical or religious stories. Modern painters have created images of nude children that depict everyday life. Some sculptures depict nude child figures. A particularly famous one is Manneken Pis in Brussels, showing a nude young boy urinating into the fountain below.

  7. Epic (genre) - Wikipedia

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    Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its roots in ancient epics (poems such as Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey ). An epic is not limited to the traditional medium of oral poetry, but has expanded to include modern mediums including film ...

  8. Nonlinear narrative - Wikipedia

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    Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.

  9. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    The Children of Húrin: J.R.R. Tolkien: 1977–2007 Randall Flagg: The Stand Eyes of the Dragon The Dark Tower series: Stephen King: 1978–2012 Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Red Dragon: Thomas Harris: 1981 Roland Deschain: The Dark Tower series: Stephen King: 1982–2012 Francis “Frank” Cauldhame The Wasp Factory: Iain Banks: 1984 Dr. Hannibal Lecter