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* [[Sock Puppet]]: The use of multiple user ID's to pretend to be someone else or create artificial support for one side in a debate is usually associated with the Internet era, but the same trick was used in ''Julius Caesar'' Act 1 Scene 2 by creating hardcopy messages "in different hands" (ie: by forging the handwriting to appear to be multiple other people) and physically throwing them through Brutus' window. Yes, a character uses a [[Online Personas|made-up persona]] in a play set in ancient Rome and written in Elizabethan England. It's also an early example of [[Astroturf]]ing.
* [[Spin-Off]]: The character of Falstaff, from Henry IV parts 1 and 2, was given his own play, at Royal request.
* [[The Starscream]]:
** Cassius in ''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]''; he succeeds in killing Caesar, but his plot to take over Rome fails.
** Possibly the title character of ''[[Macbeth]]'' (not enough is known about Duncan to label him a villain). Macbeth succeeds in his plot to assassinate Duncan, but never controls all of Scotland and is himself overthrown and slain by Macduff.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: The Bard had ''five'' plays that made use of this plot - ''[[As You Like It]]'', ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'', ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', and ''[[Cymbeline]]'' - long before the [[Trope Namer]] was written. Was pretty easy for a playwright to use this Trope during a time period [[Fridge Logic| where female characters were always played by men anyway.]]
* [[Your Mom]]:<ref>Yes, Shakespeare [[Double Entendre|did your mom first.]]</ref>
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