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  1. a fair degree of hack work was involved, bashing stuff together from other sources

    From what I know, yes–my knowledge is significantly lesser than Nicholas’s, but Bryson cites at least one case where an entire passage is lifted verbatim from a different source, I forget which, and we know many of the plots were directly lifted from other plays and stories of the time.

    If Elizabethan England had had todays copyright laws…

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