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The Natural and the Artificial in As You Like It Shakespeare's themes are often expressed in terms of oppositions, such as the c...

1558 Elizabeth I crowned. 1564 William Shakespeare born. 1572 Actors not under the protection of a patron declared rogues an...

Austen uses irony as a means of moral and social satire. Her sentences, while usually simple and direct, contain within them the basic co...

Although Jane Austen had lived in towns like Bath and Southampton and had visited London, she never gives her novels an urban setting. ...

Though Austen's style was highly individual, it is based on her close study of the eighteenth-century writers, whose simplicity, ac...

Much critical commentary on Sense and Sensibility deals with the terms referred to in the title—"sense" versus "sensibilit...

The nineteenth century contained a hotbed of critical views about the writer. Consistently inconsistent, critics, ranging from the fiery...