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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767–1845), German Romanticist, critic, and philologist, chiefly known in England for his translation into German, with the assistance of his wife and others, of the plays of Shakespeare, and for his influence on Coleridge.

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