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Who influenced William Shakespeare?

  • Ovid

    Roman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 0

  • Plautus

    Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 0

  • Seneca

    Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 3

  • Christopher Marlowe

    English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Plutarch

    Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Thomas Kyd

    English dramatist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by William Shakespeare?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    German philosopher (1844–1900)

    Influenced 71

    Influenced by 67

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Russian novelist (1821–1881)

    Influenced 37

    Influenced by 18

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

    Influenced 31

    Influenced by 8

  • John Updike

    American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 22

  • T. S. Eliot

    US-born British poet (1888–1965)

    Influenced 12

    Influenced by 28

  • Alexander Pushkin

    Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 8

  • Joseph Conrad

    Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 4

  • Walt Whitman

    American poet, essayist and journalist

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 8

  • Voltaire

    French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 15

  • Lev Shestov

    Russian existentialist philosopher (1866 – 1938)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 12

  • Ray Bradbury

    American author and screenwriter

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 21

  • Ursula K. Le Guin

    American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 16

  • George R. R. Martin

    American writer and television producer

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 6

  • George Sand

    French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 17

  • Saul Bellow

    Canadian-American writer

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 14

  • Almeida Garrett

    Portuguese writer and politician (1799–1854)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 9

  • Hans Christian Andersen

    Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 1

  • Margaret Atwood

    Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 15

  • Maya Angelou

    American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 5

  • Arthur Miller

    American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Machado de Assis

    Brazilian writer

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 18

  • Carolina Andújar

    Colombian writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 6

  • Davit Gabunia

    Georgian writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Jacques Rivette

    French film director, screenwriter and film critic

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 9

  • Jonathan Franzen

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13

  • Kåre Johannessen

    Danish historian and writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Ludwig von Westphalen

    Prussian aristocrat (1770–1842)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Manana Antadze

    Georgian writer and translator, and founder of the Tumanishvili Theatre Foundation.

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Seamus Heaney

    Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 19

  • Tom Clancy

    American author (1947–2013)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Wendell Berry

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 16

  • William Kennedy

    American writer and journalist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Álvares de Azevedo

    Brazilian poet, essayist, short story writer and playwright

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 8