'While the iron is hot' modifies the verb 'strike' indicating time. It is an adverbial clause of time.
The Spanish Tragedy is by Thomas Kyd (1582-1592). It established the revenge play genre.
R.K. Narayan was a leading Indian English novelist famous for novels set in fictional Malgudi.
A panegyric is a public speech or text in elaborate praise of someone or something.
'Heterogeneous' is the correct spelling meaning diverse in character or content.
The Elizabethan Age (1558–1603) is called the golden age of English literature for its flourishing poetry and drama.
Reporting verb changes. Present perfect → past perfect. Structure: 'He demanded of me why I had beaten his dog'.
Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903.
Jonathan Swift is the foremost English satirist known for "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Modest Proposal".
'Between' is for two people/things; 'among' is for more than two.
A novelist is distinguished by their unique 'style' of writing including word choice sentence structure and narrative technique.
'Louse' has irregular plural 'lice'. Similarly mouse → mice.
'Refrain' is followed by 'from' + gerund: 'refrain from doing something'.
'Franchise' most commonly refers to a right or privilege especially the right to vote.
'Once in a blue moon' means something that happens very infrequently.
The Jacobean era corresponds to the reign of James I of England (1603–1625).
'Retired' is a past participle used as an adjective describing the noun 'officer'.
'Concerned in' means to be involved in something like a plot or conspiracy.
Zero conditional expressing a general truth/scientific fact. Structure: when + present simple.
'Frugal' means economical. Opposite: 'spendthrift' — someone who spends money extravagantly.