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William Shakespeare was undoubtedly a literary mastermind, yet several allusions and quotations in his works suggest that he gathered ideas from other texts. Ovid's Metamorphoses, for example, was alluded to more than any other classical text, and the Bishop's and Geneva Bibles were quoted numerous times in his works. Shakespeare's reliance on source material from external literature was a common practice of the time period.
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Many Shakespeare fans prefer to imagine him as an untrained genius, but, in reality, Shakespeare drew inspiration from many classical sources for his own writing. His most famous plays, such as Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and Hamlet, allude to and reference external sources that Shakespeare was already familiar with. How much do you know about the influence of other writers on, what some would call, the greatest English dramatist to date?
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