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... that literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex?
... that the only copy of the book La Promenade du sceptique by Denis Diderot was confiscated by police on two occasions?
... that shenmo, the "gods and demons" genre of Chinese literature, includes fantasy novels such as Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods?
... that singer Morrissey's Autobiography was published in Penguin Classics, an imprint normally reserved for venerated and long-dead authors?
... that The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women?