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Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children)
Laurence Olivier in a scene from Hamlet
Learn about the characters of Othello as discussed by the cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare Library production
Hear a critical analysis of Hamlet's character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with "The Great Gatsby" book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Ion of Chios
Greek poet
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Euripides
Euripides
Greek dramatist
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Sophocles
Sophocles
Greek dramatist
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author
Aeschylus
Greek dramatist
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill
American dramatist
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Seneca, marble bust, 3rd century, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Seneca
Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer

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