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Also Known As bourgeois tragedy • bürgerliches Trauerspiel

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Portrait of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet, with glasses, prominent sideburns, and formal attire, photographed in 1901.
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Portrait of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet, with glasses, prominent sideburns, and formal attire, photographed in 1901.
Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian dramatist and poet
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
Nicholas Rowe, engraving by Remi Parr after the painting by Godfrey Kneller
Nicholas Rowe
English writer and editor
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Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
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Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
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George Lillo
English dramatist