Word: iphig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyric poems a year or two later. Notwithstanding Bernard Shaw, who started to write plays around 40, most dramatists do their best in their 30s: comedies from 32 to 36 (e.g., Shakespeare's As You Like It), tragedies from 34 to 38 (Hamlet and Racine's Iphigénie). Novelists are most likely to hit the jackpot between...