![]() Middle Eastern folktales from the Islamic Golden Age. It borrowed various elements from Tales from a Thousand and One Arabian Nights, a collection of He used other standard epic elements as repeated throughout The Iliad, Aeneid, and so forth.įrench writer and inventor, Voltaire, wrote a satire Candide. Put on armor and connecting it to the way rich people put on rich clothing and Serious epic writers before him, borrowing such images as the way epic warriors The fall of creation and humankind into imperfection.Įnglish poet Alexander Pope wrote a mock-heroic epic called the Rape of the Lock to make fun of all the Lost, a fanfiction epic of the biblical story in the book of Genesis about People’s ideas or historical existence for his plays.) Hystorye of Romeus and Iuliet.” Even more interesting, Brooke had taken hisīy Italian author Matteo Bandello. The idea from a poem written by Arthur Brooke in 1562, called, “The Tragicall Not even his most popular play, Romeo and Juliet, was original. It, Arthur is pretty love-sick over the fairy queen.Įnglish playwright Shakespeare borrowed various mythologies and historicalįigures and mixed them together. It’s suggested that some of the tales Chaucer uses actuallyĮnglish poet Edmund Spenser borrowed the legend of Arthur of the Round Table in Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (written The collection takes its basic format and inspiration from Italian author Geoffrey Chaucer (known as the father of English literature) wrote a famous It’s possibly the most self-indulgent fanfiction ever created while alsoīeing named one of the greatest poems in literature. Of a ghostly Virgil, who copied the Iliadĭante’s work includes insertions of real historical people that Dante didn’t Purgatory and heaven from Catholic / biblical texts. Literal OC self-insertion of the Italian Dante Alighieri himself into the hell, Only one example of the available fanfictions of the novel. The Lady Aoi from Shikibu’s psychological novel to explore her death and is Noh theater plays involving characters from the novel, such as Aoi no Ue (Lady Aoi), which has beenĪttributed to a few people (Zeami Motokiyo and Inuo). ![]() Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, inspired the massive outpouring of Japanese Nebuchadnezzar-another real person fanfiction of a celebrity from that time. The whole of the collection is additionally wrapped in a fictionalĪccount of telling the stories to the historical figure of the Babylonian king The name of Lilith, the character of which was inspired by Babylonian The story gave Adam a totally different wife by Himself was known for rewriting the cyclops villain (Polyphemus) of Homer’s Odyssey into a love-sick idiot in hisĪnonymous Hebrew collection of satires that included a parody of the biblical Work of the great poet Theocritus (280 BCE). Virgil was also known for writing pastoral poems based off and inspired by the Either way, there’s too many startling overlaps to classify UtnapishtimĪeneid, which is a direct sequel to the previously created epic The Iliad attributed to Greek bard Homer. Other historians suggest the two were simply inspired by a similar Many historians suggest that the story of Noah was directly ![]() Story from the Bible (dates for the book of Genesis vary anywhere from 1400 BCE Through a world-wide flood by building a ship per the instructions of the godĮnki and ultimately landing on a mountain in the Middle East, similar to Noah’s The story includes the character Utnapishtim, who lives Was inspired as a fanfiction of a historical King of Uruk, mixed with Well-known pieces of literature ever created qualify as fanfiction: In other words, noĪ few examples to support my theory that some of the most important or In fact fanfiction of someone else’s story and its elements. If your brother’s fancy writing degree was worth anythingĪt all, he should be able to admit that the vast majority of all literature is I have aĭouble degree in English and writing and am currently in school once more to ![]() I am a professional writer and editor in real life. I’ve already been told by several family members that my obsession with a “stupid tv show” is ridiculous and that I’m “too old” to fangirl. But it has pretty much solidified that I will never tell anyone I know in person what I write. He probably wouldn’t have admitted his opinion if her did. I was just informed by my brother (who thinks he’s a better writer than anyone else because he has some fancy degree in writing) that fanfiction “doesn’t count” as “real writing” because you aren’t using your own “ideas.” ![]()
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