Producing only a relatively small body of work and plagued by mental illness during his later life, Collins was nevertheless one of the most influential poets of the pre-Romantic later eighteenth century. As portrayed in his odes, his conception of poetry as visionary, even prophetic, inspired many of his immediate successors.

English theatre critic, theologian, and leading non-juror bishop (clergy who refused to pledge allegiance to the new monarchs William III and Mary II following the deposition of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688). Collier is most remembered for his 1698 anti-theatre pamphlet, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. This pamphlet attacks significant playwrights such as John Dryden, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, and William Wycherley.

Author of the humorous An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753) and collaborator with Sarah Fielding on The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754); with her sister Margaret (Collier, Margaret, 1719-1794 ), one of the Miss Colliers that Anna Letitia Barbauld refers to in her biography of Samuel Richardson.

One of the most important British Romantic period writers and a mesmerizing conversationalist and lecturer, Coleridge authored poetry, plays, criticism, journalism, and philosophical works. His most important poetic works include Poems on Various Subjects (1796), Fears in Solitude (1798), Lyrical Ballads (with William Wordsworth, 1798), Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816), and Sibylline Leaves (1817). His plays include The Fall of Robespierre (with Robert Southey 1794) and Remorse (1813).

Particularly known as a fiction publisher, Colburn was widely accused of "puffing" these works in the various literary periodicals he also published, among them the New Monthly Magazine, the Literary Gazette, the Athenaeum (very briefly), the Court Journal, and the United Service Journal.

According to The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra was enraged when her husband and king of Mycenae Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to propitiate the gods and gain favorable winds to sail to Troy to make war. On Agamemnon's return from the siege of Troy, Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus killed him.

Jean Baptiste Cléry, the personal cameriere (valet) of King Louis XVI during his imprisonment, published his journal of the revolution, Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, in 1798. It contained a moving account of the king's treatment at the hands of the revolutionary government and his last farewell to his family before his death. and

The prototypic romantic femme fatal, Cleopatra VII Philopator was the lover of Julius Caesar, later wife of Mark Antony, and final ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. After the assassination of Caesar, Cleopatra allied herself with the Second Triumvirate, whose foremost members were Antony and Octavian. Cleopatra and Antony began their love affair while Antony remained married to Octavian's sister, Octavia, and Antony became heavily reliant on Cleopatra as a source of funding and military aid.

Character in Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4). Clementina, an Italian woman, is one of the four rivals vying for the affection of the eponymous hero.

Born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, Clement XIV was the pope from 1769-1774. He authored the brief Dominus ac Redemptor (1773), which suppressed the Society of the Jesuits.