sentences:  Far from being a plagiarist, Shakespeare found accusations of plagiarism (e.g.Greene's "beautified with our feathers") offensive (Sonnets 30, 112).Trusting the early 'biographical' sources John Aubrey and Nicholas Rowe, Sams re-assessed Shakespeare's early and 'missing' years, and argued through detailed textual analysis that Shakespeare began writing plays from the mid-1580s, in a style not now recognisably Shakespearean.