1. William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd
... modern English theatre, but theatre in itself. These groundbreaking and impactful concepts can be seen being used by countless other playwrights who followed, such as Christopher Marlowe, the Jacobean playwright John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, and even the dramatist labeled as "the greatest writer in the English language"- Shakespeare himself. In distinguished plays such as Hamlet, one can see traces ... is now; his attributed "genius" not being "fully appreciated until after his death" (Brown). The true rise to fame only occurred as an intrinsic result of John Heminges and Henry Conde...
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