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== Literature ==
* ''Ink and Steel'' and ''Hell and Earth'' by Elizabeth Bear are urban fantasy novels with Shakespeare and Marlowe as protagonists. They start with Marlowe's (apparent) death, and much is made of the ([[Shown Their Work|very real]]) Marlowe references in ''[[As You Like It (Theatre)|As You Like It]]''. Interestingly, Hamnet's death in these books is ''also'' the Puck's fault--this may be a [[Shout
* ''King of Shadows'' by [[Susan Cooper]] is about a modern boy actor who's sent back in time to play Puck in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre)|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]'' and bonds with Shakespeare. At the end, he realizes that Shakespeare was almost certainly thinking of him when he wrote the part of Ariel in ''The Tempest''.
* "[http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=17973 We Haven't Got There Yet]" by [[Harry Turtledove]] is a short story in which Shakespeare attends a performance of ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' {{spoiler|performed by an involuntarily time-traveling acting troupe from 2066.}}
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* ''[[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 (Theatre)|Richard III]]'', since Richard III's expy is one of the good guys in the story.
* He appears in one of the ''Science of Discworld'' books: a timeline lacking him retards human progress as they fall victim to [[The Fair Folk]], so the wizards have to ensure his birth - ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' makes the elves figures of fun in the human imagination and they fade from a position of influence.
* In ''[[Foucaults Pendulum]]'', Shakespeare shows up in Belbo's metafictional writing about the Plan, as part of a complex chain of faked authorship. In an inversion of the standard crackpot theory, he writes the books that in reality were written by Francis Bacon. This means he doesn't have time to write his own plays, so [
* [[Isaac Asimov (Creator)|Isaac Asimov]] wrote a very short story called "The Immortal Bard" about a physicist who uses a time machine to bring Shakespeare to the present. He relates this to an English professor at a faculty mixer, who, it turns out, {{spoiler|had Shakespeare in his class on Shakespeare -- and flunked him.}}
* The ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels by Jasper Fforde are set in an alternate England where great literature is as popular and divisive as pop music or football; one of the common con scams the Literary Detectives have to investigate is people with alleged copies of Shakespeare's "lost works" ''Cardenio'' and ''Love's Labour's Won''. There are also "Will-Speak" machines, tacky arcade gadgets with a bust of Shakespeare similar to the fortune-telling ones from our world, and at one point the Goliath Corporation attempts to produce new Shakespeare plays by cloning the man thousands of times over and putting them all at typewriters - a reference to the old idea that a troupe of monkeys on typewriters will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. At the end of ''The Eyre Affair'', it turns out that {{spoiler|''no-one'' wrote the plays, and they're simply the result of a stable time loop.}}
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== Live Action TV ==
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** The episode "[[Doctor Who
** In the Fourth Doctor episode ''City of Death'', the Doctor is shown reading a manuscript of ''[[Hamlet (Theatre)|Hamlet]]'' (which he hand-wrote for Will, who had sprained his wrist writing sonnets) and claiming that he helped compose the famous 'To be or not to be' speech.
** Shakespeare has also appeared several times in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], including the audio ''The Kingmaker'' and the [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] novel ''Empire of Glass'' (which also features Marlowe).
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* ''A Cry of Players'' by William Gibson<ref>(no, [[Name's the Same|not]] [[Neuromancer|that one]])</ref> is about Shakespeare leaving Stratford to become an actor.
* ''Equivocation'' by Bill Cain features Shakespeare as the lead character, and revolves around his attempts to write a play about [
* ''The School of Night'' by Peter Whelan is primarily about the events leading up to Christopher Marlowe's mysterious death. Shakespeare features primarily as foil to Marlowe in terms of his work being remembered.
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