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Fiction Writers Source of Inspiration Shakespeare As a Model for Books, Plays and Short Stories

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Shakespeare, "The Bard of Avon", wrote more than two dozen plays,150 sonnets, and several longer poems. Authors have adapted his characters and plots in well-known works such as Westside Story, Kiss Me Kate, Brave New World, The Witches of Eastwick, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead,and The Quality of Mercy.

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