1. For an overview of the concept in the classical period, see the Oxford Classical Dictionary (Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds)), third edn. revised (Oxford University Press, 2003), ‘plagiarism’. See also David West and Tony Woodman (eds) Creative Imitation and Latin Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1979).
2. For discussions of literary theft in early modern England, see H.M. Paull, Literary Ethics: A Study of the Growth of the Literary Conscience (London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1928);
3. Harold Ogden White, Plagiarism and Imitation During the English Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935);
4. Stephen Orgel, ‘The Renaissance Artist as Plagiarist’, ELH 48 (1981): 476–95;
5. Laura J. Rosenthal, Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender, Authorship, Literary Property (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996);