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…
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…