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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Didn't Shakespeare borrow heavily from existing sources (e.g. Holinshed's Chronicles)?
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Or as Robert Greene 1592 wrote: ""Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie."