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Alexander Pope

English author

Charles Lamb

British author

Dover Wilson

British scholar and educator

Charles Cowden Clarke

English editor and critic

A.C. Bradley

British critic and scholar

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Edmond Malone

British scholar and editor

Otto Ludwig

German writer

Johann Elias Schlegel

German author and critic

Edward Dowden

Irish critic

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

William Charles Macready

English actor

John Gielgud

British actor and director

Anne Hathaway

wife of Shakespeare

William Kempe

British actor