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.
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish-born English novelist who is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa. He has been lauded as one of the most powerful, insightful, and disturbing novelists in the English canon, despite coming to England later in life. Â