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* [[Oscar Wilde]]'s story "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." is about the young man of the sonnets.

* ''Plots and Players'' by Pamela Melnikoff makes the Lopez scandal a major part of its plot.

* Simon Hawke's ''Shakespeare and Smythe'' mystery series includes ''A Mystery of Errors'', ''The Slaying of the Shrew'', ''Much Ado About Murder'', and ''The Merchant of Vengeance''. They're all about Shakespeare solving mysteries which have a remarkable resemblance to the plots of his plays (and are set before the plays are written).

* ''[[Arcia Chronicles]]'' feature an [[Expy]] of Shakespeare, though it's not a very favorable portrayal: more like a [[Take That]] for his work on ''[[Richard III]]'', since Richard III's expy is one of the good guys in the story.

* 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.

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.

*** A ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip, "A Groatsworth of Wit" (by Gareth Roberts, who also wrote "The Shakespeare Code") has the Elizabethan playwright Robert Greene travel to the 21st century, where he's horrified to learn that the upstart actor he was so disparaging of is thought of as the greatest playwright of the age, whereas he's just barely remembered as the guy who said [[It Will Never Catch On]].

* In the ''[[Blackadder]]'' [[Time Travel]] special for the Millennium, ''Blackadder Back And Forth'', Edmund beats up Shakespeare in revenge for 400 years of schoolchildren who have to put up with his plays. And for being indirectly responsible for "[[Kenneth Branagh|Ken Branagh]]'s endless, uncut, four-hour version of ''[[Hamlet]]''".

'''Blackadder:''' I'll tell him you said that. And ''I'' think he'll be very hurt. }}

:: After getting back to 1999, Edmund discovers that this messed up history, making Shakespeare give up writing and be recognized as the inventor of the ballpoint pen (which Edmund left behind by accident), so he has to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|go back and redo his visit]], being much nicer to Will that time around.

* ''[[Epic Rap Battles of History]]'' pits Shakespeare against [[Dr. Seuss]], where he apparently possesses a superior [[Motor Mouth]].

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