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Alexandre Hardy
Alexandre Hardy (c. 1570/1572 – 1632) was a French dramatist, one of the most prolific of all time. He claimed to have written some six hundred plays, but only thirty-four are extant.
He was born in Paris, and seems to have been connected most his life with a troupe of actors (the "Comédiens du Roi") headed by the actor named Valleran Lecomte, whom he provided with plays; Hardy may have toured the provinces and even acted with this company (his
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" — Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" — Victor Hugo
- "The Invisible Man" — H. G. Wells
- "" — Alexandre Dumas
- "The Mysterious Island" — Jules Verne
- "The Odyssey" — Homer
- "The Prince and the Pauper" — Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- "The Prisoner of Zenda" — Anthony Hope
- "The Return of the Native" — Thomas Hardy