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en-wikipedia-org-1224		English literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	16703	1457	65	Poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and one of the world's greatest dramatists.[5][6][7] His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[8] In the nineteenth century Sir Walter Scott's historical romances inspired a generation of painters, composers, and writers throughout Europe.[9] It was in the Victorian era (1837–1901) that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.[115] Women played an important part in this rising popularity both as authors and as readers,[116] and monthly serialising of fiction also encouraged this surge in popularity, further upheavals which followed the Reform Act of 1832".[117] This was in many ways a reaction to rapid industrialization, and the social, political, and economic issues associated with it, and was a means of commenting on abuses of government and industry and the suffering of the poor, who were not profiting from England's economic prosperity.[118] Significant early examples of this genre include Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli, and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke (1849).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1224.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1224.txt