How Shakespeare made others’ stories his own

Dr Charlotte Scott is a Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths, University of London. She convenes the pathway in Shakespeare and the Early Modern for the MA in Comparative Literature. Charlotte discusses how Shakespeare borrowed 34 out of his 38 plays that he wrote from somebody else. However, he made them his own by adding emotional depth and character -- one particular play being Titus Andronicus, where one spectacular moment on stage dramatises the power of the story to liberate and destroy. Fo