All artists, good and bad, are influenced by the work of their forerunners. Good artists absorb the work of their mentors, ...

“The writer of Shakespeare’s works was either the world’s greatest plagiarist or was Marlowe.” Interestingly enough, the two even shared an uncanny facial resemblance. A few examples of ...

Good artists absorb the work of their mentors, then try to outdo them. Shakespeare himself was accused of plagiarism, when his career was just taking off. In a scurrilous pamphlet published in ...