... 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 of Kyd's influence in aspects like that of the Machiavellian character Claudius, Hamlet's ... of the average human sponge that gathers their knowledge from less than scholarly sources-- Shakespeare is the one who is praised for his ingenious depictions of these contributions in works such as Hamlet and Othello. He is the one that people instinctively thi...

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