: Re: How to tell readers your story is a re-imagination of a popular story? If for example, I were to rewrite a story heavily inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but placed it in a complete different

@Murray165

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I would like to suggest something else to consider.

Not the legal requirements, that is already covered off very well. What would your readers like? And even more what would your characters like? Something that could be useful in terms of advancing your material - is to have your characters have a degree of self awareness.

Depending on the nature of the story, working a little awareness of the classic scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet into the storyline in an internally consistent way could help things along a little bit. EG is poison or suicide a part of the plot line? Play on the similarity, by having your main characters be Shakespeare fans - or fans of any one of the remakes of that classic tale:

West Side Story
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Grease (I personally have always thought this was a Romeo & Juliet story)
Gnomeo & Juliet
Warm Bodies

According to this page: www.tcm.com/this-month/article/191916%7C0/Romeo-and-Juliet.html
there are more than 30 versions in the movies. This gives a wealth of material that will be very accessable to your characters, and that they could get a teeny bit obsessive over

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