LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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John Dryden
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William Shakespeare
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John Milton
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare ( bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon” (or simply “the Bard").
Detailed explanation-2: -noun. William Shakespeare: so called from his birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is popularly called the Bard of Avon since he was born and raised in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first person to assign the nickname of ‘’The Bard” to Shakespeare is thought to have been David Garrick, an actor, in a poem that he wrote in 1769.
Detailed explanation-5: -someone who writes plays. poet. a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)