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What/who influenced William Shakespeare in his writing?

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What/who influenced William Shakespeare in his writing?

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Classical literature, late medieval and Renaissance European literature. His sources are too numerous to mention here (Plutarch, Ovid, Holinshed, to name but a few). Shakespeare re-wrote stories he read in his sources, and borrowed a lot from others, as was the custom then.

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