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What's the difference between a five-act play and a three-act play?

Why is Nausicaa named 'burner of ships'?

Can music be considered literature?

What is a bootless oath?

How much of The Song of Wandering Aengus by Yeats is based on Irish folklore?

Is the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt a joke, or is it serious?

How can poetry be defined?

What did Gray mean by "where ignorance is bliss, / 'tis folly to be wise"?

What is the deeper meaning of "The Tyger"?

How does Shakespeare's iambic pentameter work with Original Pronunciation?

Is there any deeper significance to the Borges story "The End"?

Why is the oath sworn to Dolon by Hector a "bootless" one?

What is the significance of "Jonathan" in Strange and Norrell?

Does Indiana Jones have a literary inspiration or equivalent?

Why is "Ode on Melancholy" an Ode?

Is there any deeper significance to the Borges story "The End"?

Why does Ishtar insist on being called "Ishtar"?

Why is Richard portrayed without a hunchback in the 1955 Laurence Olivier adaptation of Richard III?

Why doesn't Hamlet like improvisation?

What is up with the oracle's prophecy in the story of Cupid and Psyche?

What is the radical feminist take on Harry Potter?

Significance of the Phoenician Sailor having pearls for eyes in The Waste Land

Explanation of a line from the poem "I do not love you " by Pablo Neruda

What does "chartered" mean in Blake's poem "London"?

What does "I'm with the Switzerland wolves we bout to spit some jewels" mean?

Why is The Dreaming a simple place compared to Hell?

What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo and Juliet?

Can absence of information be considered a stylistic choice?

Should there be a trochee in the second to last line of Thomas Hardy's "The Oxen"?

How much do the characters in Waiting for Godot actually know?