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• Brian Merriman — or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (circa 1749 – July 27, 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000 line long Cúirt An Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) is widely regarded as the greatest… …   Wikipedia

• mime and pantomime — Dramatic performance in which a story is told solely by expressive body movement. Mime appeared in Greece in the 5th century BC as a comic entertainment that stressed mimetic action but included song and spoken dialogue. A separate Roman form… …   Universalium

• Cratinus — ▪ Greek poet died c. 420 BC       Greek poet, regarded in antiquity as one of the three greatest writers, with Eupolis and Aristophanes, of the vigorous and satirical Athenian Old Comedy.       Only about 460 fragments survive of Cratinus 27… …   Universalium

• Homoerotic poetry — is a genre of poetry of the male male erotic tradition that contains poems by major poets such as Abu Nuwas, Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, Fernando Pessoa and Allen Ginsberg. In the female female tradition, there are poets… …   Wikipedia

• SPENSER, Edmund — (1552 1599) Edmund Spenser was the outstanding nondramatic poet of the English Re­naissance and Reformation, the author of numerous poetical works, most notably the epic romance The Fairie Queene (1590 96). He was known as a poet s poet ; his… …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

• BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays — This article presents a possible chronological listing of the plays of William Shakespeare. Contents 1 Difficulty of creating a precise chronology 2 Chronology 3 Plays by Shakespeare …   Wikipedia

• English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …   Universalium

• MUSIC — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction written sources of direct and circumstantial evidence the material relics and iconography notated sources oral tradition archives and important collections of jewish music… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• PARODY, HEBREW — Parody in Early Hebrew Literature Parody is the use of a recognizable literary form as a vehicle to ridicule or mock something or someone. The writer takes a well known, serious work as his model and invests it with new and amusing contents, at… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism