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A portion of a Wall Street Journal interview with EA’s Jonathan Knight…
WSJ: You mentioned Shakespeare as one of your interests during your MFA. What do you think he would have been like as a game designer?
Knight: Shakespeare would have been on the forefront. He was an innovator and not just a great story-teller. Arguably, he’s more of a medium innovator. He borrowed heavily. “Hamlet” is a complete rip-off of a story on the prince of Denmark. Some people think he lifted it from a work that actually came between the two stories.
He was such a master at harnessing the new. For him, the new medium was open air theater on the south side of the Thames. He solidified a big portion of the English language with his plays much like Dante did with Italian vernacular.
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Original post by RawmeatCowboy