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* 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.
{{examples|Fiction where Shakespeare appears as a character includes:}}
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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.▼
== 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.
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* 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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