William Shakespere remains the great author betwixt eras; an ever-fixed mark throughout any literary precedent which follow'd him. His prowess alters not, his iambic pentameter neither. Oft compar'd to none, all contemporaries be influenc'd by him. Be it Dickens, Joyce, or Eliot.

Aye, Macbeth, Hamlet, Prospero or Iago. His characters reside in fame and infamy. 

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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me. From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom" - The Tempest.