William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, Published According to the true Original Copies, also known as the First Folio, was published in 1623, the reference to the author of Shakespeare's works as "our ever-living poet" suggests that the author is dead (Whalen 49). ... Some examples of this are Hamlet, which was taken from the French Histoires Tragiques; the French dialogue contained in Henry V; Othello, which was based on the 3 Italian Hecatommithi; and both The Rape of Lucrece and The Comedy of Errors had not been translated into English at this point in time...

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