tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post4139252886435353101..comments2008-01-23T14:19:52.696-05:00Duane Morinhttps://profiles.google.com/108055015572100370657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-50328712640516675912008-01-23T14:19:00.000-05:002008-01-23T14:19:00.000-05:00how do u know that shakespear origonaly wrote the storiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-25639907078225970862007-06-18T03:37:00.000-04:002007-06-18T03:37:00.000-04:00Middleton certainly (well, maybe) 'revised' the play for a latter performance - usually the bad witches scenes are attributed to him (as if Shakey couldn't write a bad line).<BR/>People forget the 'collaborative nature of playwriting - especially in Elizabethan England.<BR/>Also the borrowing wasn't borrowing - you HAD to use other people's material - you were taught to do it in school - and beaten well and truly if you were so presumptuous as to do anything truly original!Alan K.Farrarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12930353547190453742noreply@blogger.com