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  2. The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Act 3, Scene 5: Room in a Small Cottage on the Poplar Farm Act 4, Scene 1: Interior of a Dungeon, likely the basement of Dr. Gaines's Estate Act 4, Scene 2: The Parlor of Dr. Gaines Act 4, Scene 3: In the Forest near Dr. Gaines's Property Act 5, Scene 1: Bar in the American Hotel Act 5, Scene 2: Forest at Night Act 5, Scene 3: A Street Act 5 ...

  3. Infinite Jest - Wikipedia

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    Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, [1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

  4. Hornbook - Wikipedia

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    Images of hornbooks are variously preserved in the margins of old manuscripts, [21] as a prop in portraiture (illustrated above) or referred to in verse: The hornbook is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (written in the mid-1590s), act 5, scene 1, where Moth refers to the ba, the a, e, i, o, u, and the horn: ARMADO.

  5. Henry V (play) - Wikipedia

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    Act III, Scene iv. Act V opens some years later, when the war comes to a brief interval of peace, as the English and French negotiate the Treaty of Troyes, and Henry tries to woo the French princess, Katharine. Neither Henry nor Katharine speaks the other's language well, but the humour of their mistakes actually helps Henry achieve his aim.

  6. The Forms of Things Unknown - Wikipedia

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    The show was filmed with two endings and was allotted double the normal production time. In the pilot version: Andre reveals there is no Thanatos plant, and thus he was not dead; the time tilter did not in fact work; Hobart was not dead but merely in a coma; and lastly, Kassia uses the pistol to kill Hobart, thinking he is attacking Leonora.

  7. The Battle of Alcazar - Wikipedia

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    Act 5, Scene 1: The battlefield at Alcazar As the battle begins, Abdelemec dies (apparently of grief) after receiving news that his army will likely lose. In an effort to maintain the soldiers’ morale, his officers prop up his corpse in order to make it appear as though he is still alive.

  8. The Sound and the Fury - Wikipedia

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    When Faulkner began writing the story that would develop into The Sound and the Fury, it "was tentatively titled ‘Twilight,’ [and] narrated by a fourth Compson child," but as the story progressed into a larger work, he renamed it, [7] drawing its title from Macbeth's famous soliloquy from act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth:

  9. Rienzi - Wikipedia

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    Act 4, last scene, in the Dresden Opera House (1842) The opera opens with a substantial overture which begins with a trumpet call (which in act 3 we learn is the war call of the Colonna family) and features the melody of Rienzi's prayer at the start of act 5, which became the opera's best-known aria. The overture ends with a military march.