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Born December 15, 1787 • Enfield • England
Died March 13, 1877 (aged 89) • Genoa • Italy
Notable Works “Shakespeare Concordance” • “The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style”
Notable Family Members spouse Mary Novello Clarke
Subjects Of Study William Shakespeare

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Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Alexander Pope
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
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Nahum Tate
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A.C. Bradley
British critic and scholar
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
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Stephen Greenblatt
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Georg Brandes, 1866
Georg Brandes
Danish writer
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Tsubouchi Shōyō
Japanese author
Edmond Malone
Edmond Malone
British scholar and editor
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Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
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Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
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Dover Wilson
British scholar and educator
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George Steevens
English Shakespearean commentator
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Richard White
American writer and critic
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer

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