When was Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written?
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde was written between 1385-90.
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Who first played Blanche DuBois in the first production of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire?
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What is the origin of the journalistic term muckraker?
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How many Pulitzer prizes did Robert Frost win?
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What was a summoner or A canon’s yeoman or A franklin or A manciple or a reeve?
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