User blog comment:BobTheDoctor27/March 2013 Update/@comment-5918010-20130419230429/@comment-958607-20130420221153

Well, every single one of Shakespeare's plays, excluding his final play - The Tempest - was "borrowed" in some form or another.  The Winter's Tale  was pretty much one of his most harshest critics' best novels turned into a play 10 years after he died. :P