Where did Elizabethan playwrights find inspiration for their plays?

stories from older books of all sorts

from Latin and Greek authors as well as adapting stories from elsewhere in Europe. Hamlet is borrowed from an old Scandinavian tale, but Romeo and Juliet comes from an Italian writer writing at the same time as Shakespeare.

Explanation:

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