* 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.

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In his last opera, the comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz prepared a libretto based loosely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

The original template for this kind of comedy is Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Much of Shakespeare's dialogue is reproduced verbatim.

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.

For example, Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing used this ploy to present a surface level description of the play as well as a pun on the Elizabethan use of " nothing " as slang for vagina.

Later that year, Smith joined Christchurch's Court Theatre and performed on stage for the next three years in a variety of roles including Don Pedro in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire.

William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.

He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).

From 1982 to 1985 he played four demanding roles simultaneously: Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, for which he won a Tony for its Broadway run ( 1984 – 1985 ); Prospero in The Tempest ; Peer Gynt ; and Cyrano de Bergerac which he brought to the US and played in repertory with Much Ado About Nothing on Broadway and in Washington DC ( 1984 – 1985 ).

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing takes one of its plots ( Hero / Claudio / Don John ) from Orlando Furioso ( probably via Spenser or Bandello ).

Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.

Berlioz wrote the French libretto himself, based closely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

She played all the principal women's roles of the time, notably Shakespeare's Portia ( Merchant of Venice ) and Beatrice ( Much Ado about Nothing ), and Lady Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.

* A singer and a follower of Don Pedro in Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing

During a night-time performance, at the Albert Park Amphitheatre, of William Shakespeare's play, " Much Ado About Nothing " ( which had been reset in Messina over eight days during July, 1936 ), an airliner flew over the amphitheatre.

* Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar ( Under the name Rome at Dawn ), Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale and Hamlet

In England, William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing might be considered the first comedy of manners, but the genre really flourished during the Restoration period.

She played Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing ( 2003, San Diego ); one critic described the " verbal sparring " between Delany and actor Billy Campbell as a " joy ".

The next year, Payne produced Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing as a Christmas play at Manchester.

* Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

She also appeared in Faust and The Cherry Orchard and starred as Benedick in an all-female production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe, having played Beatrice previously at Manchester's Royal Exchange.

He continued to guest star on television shows such as, episodes of Shirley Temple Storybook Theater ( The Emperor's New Clothes, Rumplestiltskin, The Sleeping Beauty, and Hiawatha ), the live-broadcast Matinee Theater, where he starred in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and in The Heart's Desire.

Beside contributing to Shakespeare studies with his book Tales From Shakespeare, Lamb also contributed to the popularization of Shakespeare's contemporaries with his book Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare.

* In the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, main character Katarina Stratford ( Julia Stiles ) desires to attend Sarah Lawrence against her father's wishes.

* Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964.

In William Shakespeare's King Lear, the king says, " Nothing will come of nothing " to his daughter Cordelia, meaning that as long as she says nothing to flatter him, she will receive nothing from him.

For Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing she won a Dramalogue Award-Best Actress for her portrayal of Beatrice.

Of equal importance was Wieland's translation of twenty-two of Shakespeare's plays into prose ( 8 vols., 1762 – 1766 ); it was the first attempt to present the English poet to the German people in something approaching entirety.

" In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Portia exclaims " Let music sound while he doth make his choice ; Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, Fading in music.

In Act 4. 12 of Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Mark Antony is in a rage after losing the Battle of Actium and exclaims, " The shirt of Nessus is upon me.

* Shakespeare's Hamlet is an anagram for the Danish Prince Amleth.

In Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre Diana appears to Pericles in a vision, telling him to go to her temple and tell his story to her followers.

A 17th-century Nordic scholar, Torfaeus, compared the Icelandic hero Amlodi and the Spanish hero Prince Ambales ( from the Ambales Saga ) to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

* In William Shakespeare's history play Henry IV, Part 2, Prince Harry refers to Murad as " Amurath " in Act V Scene 2 when he succeeds his father, King Henry IV, in 1413:

") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a " malcontent ," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the " Melancholy Dane.

He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.

" In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff and three roguish friends of Prince Hal also waylay unwary travellers on the highway from Gravesend to Rochester, a scene also present in The Famous Victories of Henry the Fift.

By the end of Shakespeare's play, Prince Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, King Claudius and Gertrude all lie dead.

In 1953, Leigh recovered sufficiently to play The Sleeping Prince with Olivier ; and, in 1955, they performed a season at Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus.

Kronborg is known by many also as " Elsinore ," the setting of William Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of what many scholars believe to be William Shakespeare's later plays, including Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; Cymbeline ; The Winter's Tale ; and The Tempest.

" In the 1951 season at Stratford, he gave a critically acclaimed performance and achieved stardom as Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 opposite Anthony Quayle's Falstaff.

In Shakespeare's Henry V, the King of France's reference to " that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales " suggests that the playwright may have interpreted the name in this way.

The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of Apollonius of Tyre — Eustathius ' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( particularly in Act III ).

Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard ( 1839, oil on canvas ) The critic A. C. Bradley discusses the central problem of Shakespeare's tragic character Hamlet as one where conscience in the form of moral scruples deters the young Prince with his " great anxiety to do right " from obeying his father's hell-bound ghost and murdering the usurping King (" is't not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm?

* George Lillo-Marina ( adapted from Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre )

* The London theatres stage competing productions of Shakespeare's King John in response to the Jacobite invasion of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

* Lawrence Twine – The Pattern of Painful Adventures, second edition ; a source for Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Many readers interpret the history as a tale of Prince Hal growing up, evolving into King Henry V, perhaps the most heroic of all of Shakespeare's characters, in what is a tale of the prodigal son adapted to the politics of medieval England.

* Prince Hal, Henry V of England in several of Shakespeare's historical plays, especially before he became king

A number of studies have attributed to Wilkins a share in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( which does not appear in Shakespeare's First Folio, but was published only in a textually corrupt quarto ).

She was also known for her role as Perdita ( heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale ) in 1779 and as the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales.