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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Wouldn't want anyone admiring Shakespeare, given all the ripping-off of Marlowe that he did. And let's remember to ignore the plagiaristic My Fair Lady and appreciate Pygmalion instead. Don't give credit to Twain for Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; after all, he didn't do the real creative work of inventing Arthur and the Round Table. He just made up a story in someone else's setting with someone else's characters, and it doesn't take creativity to do that.
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Oh, the timing. Just today, I finished writing a song related to My Fair Lady, with a reference to the original as well.
I'm not sure what that makes me in the context of this debate.