Georg Brandes

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

The Death of Shakespeare

Florence Baptistery of Saint John, Italy

9 Historic Buildings in Florence

What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?

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The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

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Which Religion Is the Oldest?

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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Also Known As	Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Born	February 4, 1842 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died	February 19, 1927 (aged 85) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Works	“Main Currents in 19th Century Literature”
Subjects Of Study	Scandinavian literature • det moderne gennembrud • literature • Julius Caesar • Michelangelo • Voltaire • naturalism

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August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Charles Cowden Clarke

English editor and critic

Edward Dowden

Irish critic

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Alexander Pope

English author

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

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Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Charles Lamb

British author

Delia Salter Bacon

American author

Ernest Jones

British psychoanalyst

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Edmond Malone

British scholar and editor

Otto Ludwig

German writer

Mihály Babits

Hungarian author

Dover Wilson

British scholar and educator

Johann Elias Schlegel

German author and critic

A.C. Bradley

British critic and scholar

George Steevens

English Shakespearean commentator

Richard White

American writer and critic

Junius Brutus Booth

American actor

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Philosophy 101

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