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6/29/2025, 5:26:35 PM
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On the one hand you say the same language and ideas are a good case for a relationship between these texts, in the next you say it is "troublesome" for Nepos Lives to be a source for Richard II.
So which is it?
If you wish to claim William somehow had access to North's personal translation papers for Nepo's Lives and used it for his play, or that North plagiarised Shakespeare for his Nepo's Lives, you still have to explain the thousands of ideas and passages that indispituably are taken directly from North. William as the greatest plagiarist in history? And we are left still not knowing who wrote the original source plays for Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, etc in this William as plagiarist account.
We know already that whole lines and speeches taken from North's Plutarch's Lives are in the Roman plays. We now know, thanks to plagiarism software, that all of the canon is in North's language, including from North's unpublished manuscripts and marginalia.
We also know that Groatsworth of Wit and Ben Jonson discuss Shakespeare as buying and using old plays and they and other writers like Nashe discuss North as a disinheritated scholar knight.
On top of that, North's life matches the canon in his training and practice in the law, his travel in Italy and France, his military service, his experience as a playwright for Leicester's Men and Inns of Court, his disinheritance from his family and poverty, his knowledge of ancient and contemporary languages, etc etc etc.
On the one hand you say the same language and ideas are a good case for a relationship between these texts, in the next you say it is "troublesome" for Nepos Lives to be a source for Richard II.
So which is it?
If you wish to claim William somehow had access to North's personal translation papers for Nepo's Lives and used it for his play, or that North plagiarised Shakespeare for his Nepo's Lives, you still have to explain the thousands of ideas and passages that indispituably are taken directly from North. William as the greatest plagiarist in history? And we are left still not knowing who wrote the original source plays for Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, etc in this William as plagiarist account.
We know already that whole lines and speeches taken from North's Plutarch's Lives are in the Roman plays. We now know, thanks to plagiarism software, that all of the canon is in North's language, including from North's unpublished manuscripts and marginalia.
We also know that Groatsworth of Wit and Ben Jonson discuss Shakespeare as buying and using old plays and they and other writers like Nashe discuss North as a disinheritated scholar knight.
On top of that, North's life matches the canon in his training and practice in the law, his travel in Italy and France, his military service, his experience as a playwright for Leicester's Men and Inns of Court, his disinheritance from his family and poverty, his knowledge of ancient and contemporary languages, etc etc etc.
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