The bane of students, plagiarism software, which is usually used by teachers and professors to tell when someone copy and pasted a paper, has recently been applied to the Elizabethan playwrite. And while it does not say he wholesale copied his plays, he definitely took inspiration from an unpublished manuscript titled “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels,” written in the late 1500s by George North. North was a minor figure in the court of Queen Elizabeth, who served as an ambassador to Sweden.
Shakespeare used many of the same terms as North, and often uses them in scenes about similar themes, and even the same historical characters. Such “plagiarism” shows up in eleven of Shakespeare’s plays, including King Lear, Richard III, and Macbeth. An unpublished manuscript by an obscure Elizabethan courtier helped inspire one of the greatest playwrites and poets of all time. Pretty exciting!
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