Which of Shakespeare's plays were original stories, and not a retelling of old stories, such as 'Romeo and Juliet'?
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Some of Shakespeare's plays for which no clear source has been established, such as Love's Labour's Lost and The Tempest, are comedies. Even these plays, however, rely heavily on generic commonplaces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_plays#Source_material_of_the_plays