When was Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida written?
Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida was first performed around 1602 and first published in 1609.
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How many Pulitzer prizes did Eugene O’Neill win?
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Who divorced English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) on grounds of impotence?
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What was the actual case behind An American Tragedy?
An American Tragedy was a 1925 novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945). It was based on the murder of the pregnant Grace Brown by her boyfriend, social climber Chester Gillette, at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks in 1906.
What happens to Faust at the end of Goethe’s Faust (1808)?
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