William Shakespeare
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marjorie
How did Shakespeare's work influence that of the English-language authors who followed him?
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sunil
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One place where Shakespeare's influence on English literature can be clearly seen is in the large number of quotations used by later authors, such as Charles Dickens.
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zapster
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Shakespeare introduced such modern concepts as the tragic (or fatally flawed) hero into English literature.



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mordinho
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Shakespeare's Hamlet anticipates the literary theme of self-consciousness, a concept that striates the work of the Romanticists.
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