--- Mark or Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Many different sources - mythologies, older plays, histories. Maybe
> Shakespeare didn't lift lines or scenes intact from other works but
> the
> stories for many of his plays came from other sources. For example,
> in 'A
> Midsummer Night's Dream', the play that Bottom and his cohorts
> perform
> before Theseus' court at the end is 'Pyramus and Thisbe', a play
> about
> lovers who are forbidden to see one another by their parents. It
> ends with
> the death of the two lovers. There you have the source material for
> 'Romeo
> and Juliet'
> Almost every artist borrows from other, older sources. It's how the
> source
> material is used that counts. 'Silky Veils of Ardor' has bits of
> lyrics
> from several old folk songs but Joni rearranges them and weaves them
> into a
> completely new work that is uniquely her own. The same with
> 'Slouching
> Toward Bethlehem.' I would not call this plagiarism or lack of
> originality.
Mark, good call...Pyramus and Thisbe has been mentioned as a source, or
having an influence on R&J as well as the poem by Albert Brooke,
entitled The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. When authors
utilize their environment, I feel that it enhances the work one hundred
fold. A wonderful way to demonstrate the connections between things.
I love when that happens, when I recognize something that Joni utilizes
directly from another source. Jazz musicians (renowned for a lightning
fast sense of humour ;-) do that all the time, especially in live
performance..(cant remember what that called...Fred? David? ) They will
insert a very recognizable lick from a completely different work by
someone we all know, just to have a little fun. Six degrees of
separation.
Mags
nc:29 days.
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