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Claude Debussy was a French composer during the Impressionist period at the turn of the twentieth century. Debussy was one of the central figures of the Impressionist movement (which came ...

Shoot the Piano Player is a 1960 drama film from French writer and director Francois Truffaut. The film tells the story of a former concert pianist who is forced to ...

Ben Jonson was a contemporary and rival of William Shakespeare, whose satirical plays are some of his most successful and well remembered works.

A right of passage for many high school and college students is escaping away for a week of sun and fun during Spring Break. Typically a spring break vacation occurs ...

Sturm und Drang is the late 18th century German artistic, literary and musical movement characterized by energy and rebellion, often in a social context. The philosophy of Sturm und Drang ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher.http://www.online-literature.com/goethe/ His earliest lyric poems, set to music, were published when he was ...

Hunchback of Notre Dame is Victor Hugo's first full-length novel.

The long vigil on the eve of earning one's knighthood at King Arthur's round table may no longer be in practice today, but the romanticism surrounding knighthood is ...