Essay Is About Old Play By Shakespeare For Example Crossword Clue

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	noun • an event resulting in great loss and misfortune • drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
	38%	11		Famous for his essay 'An Essay towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances'
	noun • English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)
	35%	7		Noted for his essay 'On Shakespeare and Milton'
	noun • English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830)

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