Yo, pretetencious /lit/erati, we all know that every Anglo-modernist (in Anglo-lands it has a diff´rent meaning from the continent) and every Victorian writer would, now and then, quote the Bible and Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and Milton and Tyndale and Virgin Queen and Queen of Scots and Hobbes and Cromwell and John Donne. And sometimes they'd reach out to even continentals, like the Italians, the Romans o the Greeks.
My question is: Can you point out at least one place where Shakespeare or Dante would quote someone else? Pro-tip: you can't. Bump with "Nigga you SMART".
They both quote the Bible extensively.
have you even read either
>>7878096
literally this
shakespeare basically took stories pre-written and blank-versed them
http://drmarkwomack.com/engl-3306/handouts/sources-and-adaptations/the-barge-speech-from-antony-cleopatra/
OP BTFO
>>7878080
Obvious attempt at getting someone else to answer his homework. "SMART" is far from the word I'd use to describe you.
>>7878214
WAAAIT! The second bit ain't even Shakespeare quoting. It's Shakespeare BEING quoted. Ahaha!
>Nahum Tate’s adaptation of King Lear debuted in 1681. In a dedicatory epistle to the published play, Tate says: “I found the whole [of Shakespeare’s King Lear] … a heap of jewels, unstrung and unpolished; yet so dazzling in their disorder, that I soon perceived I had seized a treasure. ’Twas my good fortune to light on one expedient to rectify what was wanting in the regularity and probability of the tale, which was to run through the whole a love betwixt Edgar and Cordelia.”
SO: The only case we have so far is shakes using Plutarch's description of Cleopatra's Barge in a bloody history play about Cleopatra and Anthony. He echos a Historian's Description in a History play! A clear case of T.S.Elliot style obscure literary quotations!!