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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. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   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 age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction .

4. Didacticism - Wikipedia

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   Didacticism. Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes 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]

5. Moral - Wikipedia

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   Moral. A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A moral is a lesson in a story or in real life.

6. Original Stories from Real Life - Wikipedia

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   Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century English feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. Original Stories begins with a frame story that sketches out the education of two young girls by ...

7. List of works based on Arthurian legends - Wikipedia

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   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English: Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt) is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance. It is one of the best known Arthurian stories, the following films are directly based on the romance: Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)