Kalidasa
400 – 460 · India · Literature
Sanskrit's supreme dramatist; Shakuntala reached Goethe.
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- Rabindranath Tagore
1861 – 1941 · Literature, Philosophy
Sanskrit lyric drama is the tradition Tagore modernised in Bengali.
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