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* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]:
{{quote|"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"|''[[Macbeth]]''}}
* [[Prince and Pauper]]: ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' used this one almost three centuries before the [[Trope Namer]] did.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
{{quote|'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended / Think but this, and all is mended''
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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.
* [[Spin-Off]]: The character of Falstaff, from Henry IV parts 1 and 2, was given his own play, at Royal request.
* [[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>
{{quote|'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''
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