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Brewer's: Comedy
means a village-song (Greek, Kome-ode), referring to the village merry-makings, in which comic songs still take a conspicuous place. The Greeks had certain festal processions of great…Brewer's: Gil Blas
(g soft). The hero of Le Sage's novel of the same name. Timid, but audacious; well-disposed, but easily led astray; shrewd, but easily gulled by practising on his vanity; good-natured, but…All-Time Top 25 Most Popular Commemorative Stamps
IssueNo. saved (millions)Elvis, 1993 124.1 Wonders of America, 2006 87.5 Marvel Super Heroes, 2007 85.5 Star Wars, 2007 80.8 Wildflowers, 1992 76.1 Rock and Roll, 1993 75.9 DC Comics Super…Brewer's: Aristotelian Unities
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, laid it down as a rule that every tragedy, properly constructed, should contain but one catastrophe; should be limited to one denoument; and be…Literary Allusions
Boswell: James Boswell (1740–95) is best known for his 1791 book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., considered by many to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. His name is…Brewer's: Sock
[comedy]. The Greek comic actors used to wear a sandal and sock. The difference between the sock and the tragic buskin was this- the sock went only to the ankle, but the buskin extended to…Brewer's: Pam
The knave of clubs, short for Pamphile, the French word for the knave of clubs. “Dr. Johnson's derivation of Pam from palm, because `Pam' triumphs over other cards, is extremely comic. Of…Brewer's: Proper Names used as Common Nouns
Crebillon = terrible. Dumas = imaginative Fénelon = fabulous. Le Sage = humorous. Molière = comic. Montaigne = thoughtful. Rabelais = unclean. Rousseau = amorous, Victor Hugo = incendiary…Timeline Archive
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(Encyclopedia) antique collecting, the assembling of items of aesthetic, historical, and often monetary value from earlier eras. The term antique initially referred only to the preclassical and…Trending
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