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Also Known As	The Jew • O Judeu
Born	May 8, 1705 • Rio de Janeiro • Brazil
Died	October 18, 1739 (aged 34) • Lisbon • Portugal

Gil Vicente

Portuguese dramatist

Ludovic Halévy

French author

George Abbott

American director

George Colman, the Younger

English playwright

Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Portuguese author

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

P.G. Wodehouse

British author

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero

Dutch author

Moss Hart

American playwright

Joe Orton

British writer

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Irish dramatist

Elizabeth Inchbald

English author and actress

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João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett

Portuguese writer

St. José de Anchieta

Portuguese author and scholar

Pedro António Correia Garção

Portuguese poet

José Régio

Portuguese author and critic

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Júlio Dinis

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