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Originally Posted by HarryT
There have been some enormously successful "derivates" written. One which immediately springs to mind is Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", a "prequel" to Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". Of course, that was in the public domain, so no copyright issues were involved.
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It's not like it's unique to books either, the example I allways use is Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", which is very much derived from Hamlet, and also stands alone in its artistic merit.