Shakespeare (was Raison d'Fanfic

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., hamster8 at h... wrote:
> Which begs the question, if Shakespeare were still alive,
> would he sue Pratchett for plagiarism?

His suit would be thrown out if he did: he stole from everyone. 
IIRC he stole King Lear and some other stuff from Giraldus 
Cambrensis, Hamlet from a book in French, his History plays from a 
Tudor court 'historian' propagandist... It is claimed that he also 
stole 'bits' (jokes and songs that got good audience response, etc) 
from "the competition"'s plays, altho' I was never told any examples. 
I should have mentioned Shakespeare when I was speaking of Milton 
having worked before the modern craze for changing the names and 
filing off the serial numbers.