It was attributed in Antiquity to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. Rowling named the character after the poet (and tragedian) William McGonagall, whose name she liked. Italian tragedian Eleonora Duse succumbed to pneumonia in suite 524. A longstanding quarrel with William Charles Macready resulted in the tragedian assaulting the manager. She studied with the celebrated tragedian, . But his ambition was to become a tragedian. The party takes place at the house of the tragedian Agathon in Athens. Soon after in 1853, Edwin Forrest, a prolific tragedian, would purchase the home.