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  2. My Fair Lady - Wikipedia

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    My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.

  3. The Taming of the Shrew - Wikipedia

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    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, [a] in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

  4. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈhæmlɪt /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father ...

  5. Mrs Dalloway - Wikipedia

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    Mrs Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. The working title of Mrs Dalloway was The Hours. The novel originated from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the ...

  6. Ophelia - Wikipedia

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    Ophelia (/ oʊ ˈ f iː l i ə /) is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends up in a state of madness that ultimately leads to her drowning.

  7. Lady Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c.1603–1607). As the wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. Some regard her as becoming more powerful than Macbeth when she does this, because ...

  8. Sense and Sensibility - Wikipedia

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    Sense and Sensibility is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John ...

  9. Portia (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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    Kate Dolan as Portia (1886), by John Everett Millais. Created by. William Shakespeare. Portia is a female protagonist in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia [1] — the daughter of Cato the Younger — as well as several parts of the Bible.

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