Romeo and Juliet on This Day in History

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This Day in History: The characters Romeo and Juliet were married this day in 1302 according to William Shakespeare. There is a lot of mystery surrounding Shakespeare. For hundreds of years it was thought that others wrote his plays, like Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere. Also, many of Shakespeare's plays have been accused of plagiarism. Take Romeo and Juliet. This is a variation of the several older stories from Italy, which are also reworkings of the ancient tale of Pyramus and Thisbe contained in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Perhaps Mark Twain was right when he said: “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations."

Shakespeare and Plagiarism by Henry Noble MacCracken 1910
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2017/01/shakespeare-and-plagiarism-by-henry.html

The Shakespeare Riddle by John Elfreth Watkins 1919
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-shakespeare-riddle-by-john-elfreth.html

The Real Shakespeare Problem by Gordon Crosse 1917
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-real-shakespeare-problem-by-gordon.html