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Shakespeare, William

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the world's greatest dramatist. His extensive body of work, including tragedies, comedies, and histories, explores the complexities of the human condition with unparalleled linguistic mastery.

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic masterpiece *Frankenstein* at the age of twenty. The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she crafted a seminal work of science fiction that explores the perils of unchecked ambition and the necessity of empathy.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist whose exploration of the darker corners of human nature produced one of the most enduring Gothic tales in English literature. Consumptive from youth, Stevenson traveled extensively in search of health, writing adventure stories, travel narratives, and fin-de-siècle horror from his homes in England, France, and eventually Samoa, where he became known as Tusitala, the storyteller. Jekyll and Hyde emerged from a fever dream in 1886 and immediately captivated Victorian readers with its disturbing portrait of respectable society harboring monstrous secrets.

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