Humanity

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Francois Rabelais

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French monk, who was interested in law, medicine and theology he was almost burned at the stake several times

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Cervantes

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Best Spanish writer of all time. He wrote Don Quixote.

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Edward Spenser

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Wrote the Faerie Queen

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Oliver Cromwell

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First commoner to rule England and did so for 10 years

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Pilgrim's progress

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Allegory about heaven

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Daniel Defoe

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Wrote Robinson Crusoe it was the first pure fiction story

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wrote a book called The Prince. The book is about how to deviously get what you want

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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She was an essayist and wrote Vindication of the women's right. Her daughter Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein which meant to be an examination of society

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Honore de balzac

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Wrote a series of 50-plus novels including the human comedy

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Victor Hugo

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Wrote Les Miserables

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Alexandre Dumas

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Wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo

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Jules Verne

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Wrote 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. He is considered the father of science fiction

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Jonathan Swift

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Wrote Gulliver's Travs which is about a doctor who is looking for the truth

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Mark Twain

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(Samuel Clemens) First wrote Tom Sawyer then Huckleberry Finn.

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William Fraulkner

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Wrote in stream of consciousness style. He wrote The Sound and the Fury based on the demise of the Compson family. He also wrote stories based in Yoknapatawpha Country, Mississippi, a country that he invented that resembled his home.

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Benjamin Franklin

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Helped our nation become independent, at 12 he wanted To go to sea.

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Samuel Johnson

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Comiled a dictionary

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James Boswell

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Wrote a biography on Samuel Johnson

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Jane Austen

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Wrote Pride and Prejudice

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Charles Dickens

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Wrote A Tale of Two Cities, The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist

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George Sand

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1.Actually a female feminist writer.

2.The Bell bothers were actually the three Bontë sisters. Currer(Charlotte), Ellis(Emily), and Acton(Anne). Wrote in male names to get their work published.

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Emily Brontë

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Wrote Wuthering Heights.

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Leo Tolstoy

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Wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina

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Joseph Conrad

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Wrote a novelette called Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. In Lord Jim ,Jim was corrupted by absolute power.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Wrote the Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise

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Mary McCarthy

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Was a female American writer

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Ray Bradbury

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He writers science fiction including the hit Fahrenheit 451

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Isaac Asimov

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Wrote Science Fiction

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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Was in African American writer who wrote Folks From Dixie, about the life of Southern blacks

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Langston Hughes

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Wasn't African American writer who was involved in the "Harlem Renaissance" in N.Y. when black artists formed a community.

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Pearl Buck

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Won the Noble Prize for Americans in China

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Simone Dr Beauvoir

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Was a feminist who wrote a treatise titled " The Second Sex"

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Mathew Brady

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Wasn't American Civil War photographer. His working spot Steven Crane to write The Red Badge of Courage

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King Arthur

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With all his subjects warring, he started the round table so no one could complain about sitting far from him, all were at hand, this no one was deemed more important than another

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Humanism

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Is a school of thought where people believe that a human being has value no matter of his spirituality. They believe that all people are inherently good.

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Henrik Ibsen

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A social reformer, wrote Peer Gynt and A Doll's House in which the main character Nora to find her husband and leaves marriage

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Samuel Beckett

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Wrote the play Waiting for Godot which included no scenery other than a cyclirama

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Eugene O'Neill

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Was an early Century playwright. He was serious and real heavy drama with adultery and dark gritty plots

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Arthur Miller

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Was an American playwright who wrote Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons

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Lorraine Hansberry

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Wrote Raisin in the Sun which is about a family South Chicago trying to move to a white neighborhood and their struggles with circulation

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Not Theatre

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A classical performance of Japanese theater. There were no women actors, Men played all parts. There was poetry music and dancing each production

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Soliloquy

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Is actor who is alone on stage vocalizes his innermost thoughts

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Aside

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Is when a character speaks to the audience, confidently, separating himself from the other characters

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Scrim

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Is a gauze material that if you light it from the back side, you can see a silhouette, also use for scenery