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  2. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include: Bubbles in the television series Trailer Park Boys

  3. Aristocracy - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, a seventeenth-century English aristocrat and politician. Aristocracy (from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ ( aristokratíā ) 'rule of the best'; from ἄριστος ( áristos ) 'best' and κράτος ( krátos ) 'power, strength') is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small ...

  4. List of fictional nobility - Wikipedia

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    One of the bosses that inhabit Inkwell Isle 2 in the level Sugarland Shimmy. Baroness Anastasia Cisarovna: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Referred to as "the Baroness", she is a villainess in the employ of Cobra. Baron of Hell Doom: High tier enemies, two are encountered at the end of Episode 1. Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent Ever After

  5. A Dialogue Among Clever People - Wikipedia

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    Aylmer Maude was one of the first translators. According to literary critic Robert Ellsberg , in this story, an aristocrat articulates about happiness and concludes that happiness can best be found in the ideal of the simplicity, faith, and work of peasant life. [ 1 ]

  6. Aristocracy (class) - Wikipedia

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    2nd Earl and Countess Harcourt, in their coronet and coronation robes by Joshua Reynolds.The countess was a confidant of Queen Charlotte.. The term aristocracy derives from the Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratia from ἄριστος (aristos) 'excellent' and κράτος (kratos) 'power'). [6]

  7. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]

  8. Gentleman detective - Wikipedia

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    Sherlock Holmes (right) and Dr Watson, by Sidney Paget (1901). The gentleman detective is a type of fictional character. He (or she) has long been a staple of crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories set in the United Kingdom in the Golden Age.

  9. Oblomov - Wikipedia

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    Oblomov (Russian: Обломов, pronounced [ɐˈbloməf]) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859.Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature.