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Also Known As Osborne Henry Mavor
Born January 3, 1888 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died January 29, 1951 (aged 63) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Notable Works “The Anatomist” • “The Sunlight Sonata”
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
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Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
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John Home
English dramatist
Josephine Tey, 1934
Josephine Tey
Scottish author
Joanna Baillie, engraving by H. Robinson after a portrait by Sir William Newton
Joanna Baillie
British author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
Ben Elton
Ben Elton
British actor, writer, and comedian
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John Marston
British dramatist
Philip Massinger.
Philip Massinger
English playwright
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Nicholas Udall
English writer
J.M. Synge
J.M. Synge
Irish author