Shakespeare got the ideas for many of his plays from existing stories. Do you think that this makes his plays less important? Why or why not? Can you provide any modern-day
examples of how someone took a pre-existing idea and transformed it by their own talent?

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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