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Most/All of Shakespeare's plays were retellings, with or without a twist, of earlier stories which circulated around Europe with the travelling theatre troupe things of the time. Names and locations usually changed, obviously, with grafts here and there.
I was tempted to say hither and yon.
Glad I didn't.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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