WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) wrote 37 plays. King Lear and Macbeth are widely considered his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists ever, his most acclaimed novels—Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot—have had an immeasurable impact on world literature, Existentialism, and Freudian psychology.Â