“ In high school English we were supposed to write a paper on Shakespeare, and I decided to write a Shakespearean play. I wrote a five-act tragedy in Elizabethan iambic pentameter. It was about Alexander the Great. My teacher accused me of plagiarism until I proved to him neither Shakespeare nor anyone else had written a play about Alexander the Great. ”
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“ Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation… ”
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