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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a brilliant bit of fanfic, telling the story of Hamlet through the eyes of a pair of walk-offs who were used by Shakespeare to advance the plot.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is brilliant no matter WHAT you call it.
and i would say that fan fiction is just an exacerbated form of what has been going on for centuries ; culture feeds off itself. artists of every media have always been nourished and inspired by those who came before them. art (whether painting, writing, music...) is constantly creating something new out of what has already been created, either by expanding on it, reducing it to its fundamental essence, examining a detail of it, responding to it in some way, rejecting it... that is one of the original purposes of the public domain in fact : to allow culture to continue to enrich the ongoing creative process, on a societal level.