In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.

The trio were likened to the Greek chorus, and the three witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, as they would sit in the snug bar of the Rovers Return, passing judgement over family, neighbours and frequently each other.

It is known internationally for its castle Kronborg, where William Shakespeare's play Hamlet is set.

* William Shakespeare's play Hamlet takes place at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, from whence the English spelling " Elsinore " derived.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

Since 1600, two successive lines of verse that rhyme with each other, known as a couplet featured as a part of the longer sonnet form, most notably in William Shakespeare's sonnets.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

Certain aspects of Gesta Danorum formed the basis for William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.

Otello, based on William Shakespeare's play, with a libretto written by the younger composer of Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito, premiered in Milan in 1887.

For example, in the 17th century cross dressing was common in plays, as, for example, evident in the content of many of William Shakespeare's plays ( and by the actors in the actual performances, since female roles in Elizabethan Theater were always performed by males, usually prepubescent boys ).

* Worst Credit Line: The 1929 version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, " with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor ".

* In William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Hector's death is used to mark the conclusion of the play.

* First Folio ( F1 ) In 1623 Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard published the First Folio, the first edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works.

The weeping philosopher makes an appearance in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

In addition to Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery, a hand-fast marriage is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline ( act I, scene vi ).

The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear.

William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part II contains a wry comment about people who claim to be related to royal families.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar begins during the Lupercalia, with the tradition described above.

Lucrece is also featured in William Shakespeare's 1594 long poem The Rape of Lucrece ; he also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night ( Malvolio authenticates his fateful letter by spotting Olivia's Lucrece seal ).

Robert James " Bob " Ritchie was born on January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan to William " Bill " Ritchie, a car dealer who owned several local dealerships, and Susan Ritchie.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

She would release her first film in 1917, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

* Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London.

William Shakespeare mentions Pentecost in a line from Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene V. At the ball at his home, Capulet speaks in refuting an overestimate of the time elapsed since he last danced: " What, man?

It is also the town to which Romeo was banished in William Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet.

* In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo spends his period of exile — his punishment for killing Tybalt — in Mantua.

In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernization of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name which retained the original Shakespearean dialogue.

In 1827, Berlioz watched Irish actress Harriet Smithson at the Odéon theatre playing Ophelia and Juliet in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Other popular adaptations of Shakespeare's plays that relied on anachronisms in props and setting were Titus ( 1999 ) and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ).

* Count Paris, character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment.

This tradition began in 1994, as a nod to the William Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet.

The stories on which William Shakespeare based several of his plays ( Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night in particular )< Ref name =" SHEMEK "/> were supplied by Bandello, probably through Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau whose stories were later translated into English by William Paynter and included in his The Palace of Pleasure.

Hugh Rebeck is a minor character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, one of the musicians called by Peter in an oft-cut scene.

Spranger Barry ( left ) as Romeo Montague | Romeo to Maria Isabella Nossiter's Juliet Capulet | Juliet in William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Covent Garden in 1759. Spranger Barry ( 23 November 1719 – 10 January 1777 ) was an Irish actor.

* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare-Stratford-upon-Avon, 1954