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    Valentine and Orson is a romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle. It is the story of twin brothers, abandoned in the woods in infancy...
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  • Saint hymn writer Orson, the hero of Valentine and Orson, a medieval romance, from which the name originates Orson, a ghost who controlled his own mech...
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    Gentlemen of Verona Valentine, gentleman of Orsino in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Valentine, in the medieval romance Valentine and Orson Valentine, the protagonist...
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    Ferragut (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    medieval romance Valentine and Orson. Brother of Esclarmonde, he is responsible for imprisoning Bellissant, the sister of King Pepin, and is eventually beheaded...
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    various low-budget productions and became a sought-after child performer. He took leading parts in Valentine and Orson (1794) and The Talisman; or, Harlequin...
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  • John Wilde. She won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Special Award for Valentine and Orson in 1990. In 2003, she was subject of an exhibition at the Eric Carle...
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    knights-errant have been assisted by wild men of the woods, as in Valentine and Orson, or, like Guillaume de Palerme, by wolves that were, in fact, enchanted...
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    While he never eliminates the mother-in-law, many romances such as Valentine and Orson have later variants that change from the mother-in-law to the courtier...
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    were taxed to pay for the shows and pageants. Edward was greeted at Cheapside by actors playing Valentine and Urson (Orson). These were twin brothers, warriors...
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    with the princess he loved, and found a werewolf who would aid him. In Valentine and Orson, the Queen is sent into exile and so forced to give birth in...
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    Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is (as of 2024) the only person to have won...
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    Straw bear Tengu Valentine and Orson Yeren Yeti Tarzanide OED, "Woodwose" Bernheimer, p. 42. perhaps understood as a plural in wodwos and other wylde bestes...
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  • Orson, Valentine's lost brother that has been raised by a bear, and Shakespeare's Mercutio, suggesting possible mirroring between the OrsonValentine...
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    tales as Valentine and Orson, Guillaume de Palerme, and Queste del Saint Graal were only the beginning of the fantasy genre, combining realism and fantasy...
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    This motif of a she-bear raising the hero is paralleled by Orson in Valentine and Orson, a tale widely read in roman bleue (chapbook) form in the early...
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  • Magni Ferragus, a Saracen giant of Portugal in the medieval romance Valentine and Orson Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants, a novel by Honoré de Balzac, also...
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    Walter Crane (category Arts and Crafts movement artists)
    containing Puss in Boots, Old Mother Hubbard, Valentine and Orson, The absurd ABC. London; New York : George Routledge and Sons.  This article incorporates text...
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  • Valentine And Orson: a Study In Late Medieval Romance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1929. pp. 22–59. Taylor, Archer. "Review: [Valentine and Orson:...
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  • National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Jean de l'Ours ("John-of-the-Bear") Valentine and Orson McKenzie, Robin (2000). "Space, Self, and the Role of the...
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    Tom Taylor (category 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
    1905. Valentine and Orson, 1844 Whittington and his Cat, 1844 Cinderella, 1844 A Trip to Kissingen, 1844 To Parents and Guardians, 1845 Diogenes and his...
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  • Ender's Game (category Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact)
    Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents...
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  • Ender's Game (novel series) (category Novels by Orson Scott Card)
    referred to as the Ender saga and also the Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card. The series started...
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  • Ender's Game (film) (category American films with live action and animation)
    military science-fiction action film based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 novel of the same name. Written and directed by Gavin Hood, the film stars Asa Butterfield...
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    Albert Richard Smith (category English male dramatists and playwrights)
    (1848) and The Flirt (1848). Smith wrote several extravaganzas for the Lyceum Theatre, including Aladdin (1844), Valentine and Orson (1844) and Whittington...
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  • Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of the Ender's Game series, published on November 11, 2008. It takes...
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  • Anthony Munday (category 16th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
    Munday, and Michael Drayton. May 1598. Not printed. Valentine and Orson, by Richard Hathwaye and Anthony Munday. July 1598. Not printed. Chance Medley...
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    The Ebony Horse (category One Thousand and One Nights characters)
    Chaucer's The Squire's Tale, Valentine and Orson and Meliacin ou le Cheval de Fust, by troubador Girart d'Amiens (fr). The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis carries...
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    Riding Hood, the bear in Valentine and Orson and the cat in Dick Wittington. Hill’s animal impersonations became very popular and in 1902 he was offered...
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    Christendom and Valentine and Orson. Once in London, in an escalated rivalry with Her Majesty's Theatre in Haymarket (i.e., with serious dramas and operas)...
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    Charles Farley (category English dramatists and playwrights)
    production of Valentine and Orson in 1806, Farley playing the former role. He also assisted Thomas Dibdin in the composition of Harlequin and Mother Goose...
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