The Winter's Tale
(and they all lived happily ever after)
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We all know
in this day and age that nothing is original. Even one of the
greatest creative minds of all time, William Shakespeare, borrowed from /
adapted / robbed (depending on your semantics) literature he’d
encountered during his schooling and throughout his life. His first play, The
Comedy of Errors, was based on The Menaechmi of Plautus. From
then on, he borrowed from sources ancient and contemporary, English,
French, Italian, Greek, fantastical or historical. This fact doesn’t
discredit his work in the least because, of course, everybody does it and
always has. The part I take issue with is that, in The Winter’s Tale,
which is based on Robert Greene’s story Pandosto, he took a
perfectly terrible tragic ending and altered it so that everyone lives
"happily ever after." But, as you will see here, everyone does
that, too.
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