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* ''[[The Tempest]]'' and ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]'' are related somehow--possibly because Puck and Ariel are connected.
* [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s death is significant, or possibly [[Faux Death|faked]].
* Shakespeare's marriage was of at best questionable happiness (because he only left his wife his "second best bed" in his will, and because he spent most of his life in London while she was in Stratford-upon-Avon). His wife gave birth less than nine months after their marriage, so it's often presented as a [[Shotgun Wedding]].
* One or both of the lost plays, ''Love's Labour's Won'' and the Fletcherian collaboration ''Cardenio'', play some important role in the plot.
* Very little Shakespearean fiction actually subscribes to any of the standard unorthodox perspectives in the authorship controversy, but often the existence of the controversy is referenced somehow--either by having one of the standard candidates give Shakespeare writing advice, or by coming up with a new (and probably completely absurd) candidate for authorship.
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== Advertising ==
* He appeared in a promotion for [[McDonald's]] (where the chain was giving away BIC pens) taking a seat in the restaurant next to [[Mark Twain]].
* Appeared in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqs23OLzNo a commercial] for Klondike ice cream, where the pitchman asked him if he would write a TV sitcom for a Klondike Bar.
== Anime/Manga ==
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** More specifically, Dream wanted ''The Tempest'' to end the way it did because, ''unlike'' Prospero, he will never be able to abandon magic and leave his own "island".
* In ''[[Kill Shakespeare]]'' Hamlet is asked by Richard III to kill a wizard who may or may not be real: William Shakespeare, who is worshiped throughout the country.
* In ''[[Light and Dark -
{{quote|''"You cant shootest me with an gun▼
''It would not be very fun▼
''I will call the gard to stop you▼
''They will all stab you▼
''With there knives▼
''And then you will not have any lives!"▼
''But the poem was too long and by the time he got to the end he was dead. }}▼
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Shakespeare spelled his name eleven different ways when he was alive. There wasn't really any standardization of spelling at the time.▼
== Film ==▼
* ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', obviously. The entire movie is about real-world events that inspired his play. Some examples of this include:▼
** Marlowe's death looks like it's important. Shakespeare claims to be Marlowe at a ball where he gets between Lady Viola and her fiancé, so he later ends up thinking that the fiancé had Marlowe killed. It turns out to be a [[Red Herring]]; when Shakespeare shows up at Marlowe's funeral, [[Attending Your Own Funeral|the fiancé's reaction]] inspires the scene with Banquo's ghost in ''[[Macbeth]]''.▼
** Lady Viola (who dresses as a boy in order to be able to act) is the inspiration for the character of the same name in ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. She may also be the beautiful young man of the Sonnets.▼
* The [[Roland Emmerich]] film ''Anonymous'' ([[The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named|no relation]]) involves the theory that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays.▼
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', the Hogwarts choir recites the witch's recipe from ''[[Macbeth]]''... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUixJdzxfCA to music]! [[J. K. Rowling]] is herself known to be a fan of the Bard's works.
== Literature ==
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* In the [[Horus Heresy]] novels he is mentioned a couple times as 'Shakespire'. In ''Prospero Burns'' it's revealed that they only believe he wrote three plays.
* ''No Bed For Bacon'', a humorous novel that may have inspired ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', takes a [[Historical Hilarity]] approach to the period. It makes reference to the authorship controversy by inverting it. Rather than Bacon writing Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare helps write Bacon's essays in addition to his play-writing work.
* A meta example, [[J. K. Rowling]] claims<ref>Interview with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leaky_Cauldron_(website) The Leaky Cauldron] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuggleNet MuggleNet]</ref>, Voldemort's relation to Harry was inspired by ''[[Macbeth]]'', specifically the prophecy given to the protagonist by the Three Witches:
{{quote|'''Rowling:''' "What if [Voldemort] never heard the prophecy? It's the 'Macbeth' idea. I absolutely adore ''Macbeth. It is possibly my favourite Shakespeare play. And that's the question isn't it? If Macbeth hadn't met the witches, would he have killed Duncan? Would any of it have happened? Is it fated or did he make it happen? [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|I believe he made it happen]]."
▲== Fan Fiction ==
:* She also claimed on her own blog that, "the prophecy (like the one the witches make to Macbeth, if anyone has read the play of the same name) becomes the catalyst for a situation that would never have occurred if it had not been made."
▲* In [[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami|Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami]], his name is spelled "[[Rouge Angles of Satin|Shakespeer]]", he speaks in [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]], and he was [[You Fail History Forever|The King of England]]. When threatened, he talks in "Pomes". They are painful.
▲{{quote|"You cant shootest me with an gun
▲It would not be very fun
▲I will call the gard to stop you
▲They will all stab you
▲With there knives
▲And then you will not have any lives!"
▲But the poem was too long and by the time he got to the end he was dead. }}
▲** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Shakespeare spelled his name eleven different ways when he was alive. There wasn't really any standardization of spelling at the time.
▲== Film ==
▲* ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', obviously. The entire movie is about real-world events that inspired his play. Some examples of this include:
▲** Marlowe's death looks like it's important. Shakespeare claims to be Marlowe at a ball where he gets between Lady Viola and her fiancé, so he later ends up thinking that the fiancé had Marlowe killed. It turns out to be a [[Red Herring]]; when Shakespeare shows up at Marlowe's funeral, [[Attending Your Own Funeral|the fiancé's reaction]] inspires the scene with Banquo's ghost in ''[[Macbeth]]''.
▲** Lady Viola (who dresses as a boy in order to be able to act) is the inspiration for the character of the same name in ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. She may also be the beautiful young man of the Sonnets.
▲* The [[Roland Emmerich]] film ''Anonymous'' ([[The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named|no relation]]) involves the theory that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays.
== Live Action TV ==
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* Shakespeare appears in one version of "[[Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?]]?", when one of VILE agents steals his original scripts. Renee Santz and you help one of his actors fix the Globe's wall.
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* Shakespeare in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' is an office worker who writes ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' [[Self-Insert Fic]] in his spare time. His office mates include Mercutio, a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] type, and Ophelia, who has a crush on him but doesn't quite get his interests.
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