English Renaissance writer and playwright who wrote Rosalynde (1590) — the prose romance that Shakespeare transformed into As You Like It — and who represents the quality of source material Shakespeare routinely exceeded.
Provided Shakespeare with the narrative skeleton of As You Like It — demonstrating the gap between competent source material and Shakespearean transformation, where the original is entirely eclipsed by what Shakespeare makes of it.
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