Every child knows the story of the star-crossed Romeo & Juliet, has heard Hamlet’s midnight lament to his father’s ghost, and shivered as the witches pronounce poor Macbeth’s doom.
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Double Falsehood Not False After All
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Arcana, Popular
New evidence has come to light that the 18th century play Double Falsehood — whose author famously claimed (to mixed reviews) that it was based on Shakespeare’s missing play Cardenio — actually is derived from Shakespeare’s lost work. Rumors abound that the play will be performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company when the Swan Theatre [...]
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When Is Re-Mixing Copyright Infringement?
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Copyright, Popular
Several years ago, Jonathan Lethem wrote a brilliant article defending the use of “borrowing” by writers in their pursuit of new creation, arguing that creation itself necessarily calls upon the inchoate melange of what one has read over one’s life as an unconscious source of style, language, allegory, sentence structure, plot, and pacing, and that — in a sense — imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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