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This is a subsection titled "Plagiarisms," extracted from a text file [pdf-01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). The text discusses instances of imitation and plagiarism of Shakespeare's work, particularly "Lucrece," by various poets and dramatists of the early seventeenth century. It covers specific examples from 1595 to 1638.
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The subsection details how Shakespeare's work, especially "Lucrece," was imitated and plagiarized by early 17th-century poets and dramatists. Specific instances mentioned include:
- Richard Barnfield transferring phrases to his "Cassandra" (1595).
- Samuel Nicholson incorporating lines in his poem "Avolastus" (1600).
- Robert Baron using lines in "Fortune’s Tennis Ball" fifty years later.
- Reminiscences of the apostrophe to Opportunity in Marston’s "The Malcontent" (1604) and Ford’s "Lady’s Trial" (1638).
- Thomas Heywood producing a tragedy called "The Rape of Lucrece" (1608), though it covers a wider scope than Shakespeare's poem.
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To poets and dramatists of the early seventeenth century the work especially appealed. It at once received the flattery of imitation or actual plagiarism. As early as 1595 Richard Barnfield, an inveterate imitator of Shakespeare, transferred many phrases to his Cassandra. In 1600 Samuel Nicholson incorporated lines without acknowledgement in his poem of Avolastus—procedure which was followed with even greater boldness by Robert Baron in his Fortune’s Tennis Ball just fifty years later. Reminiscences of the great apostrophe to Opportunity are met with in Marston’s play of The Malcontent, 1604, and in Ford’s Lady’s Trial, 1638. Shakespeare’s friend, Thomas Heywood, produced a five-act tragedy called The Rape of Lucrece in 1608, the year following the appearance of the fourth edition of Shakespeare’s poem. But Heywood’s play is a chronicle drama covering much wider ground than Sextus Tarquinius’ outrage. Lucrece’s tragic experience is merely one of many legendary disasters which occupy Heywood’s pen, and the
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- Plagiarisms.