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 ).

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

William Shakespeare used this device in many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost, and Hamlet.

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 ).

* Love's Labour's Won, play by William Shakespeare.

Among his works as a composer are Royal Wedding Serenata ( 1863 ), concert overture Les Travailleurs de la mer ( 1869 ), the oratorio Gideon ( produced Gloucester, 1871 ), overture to William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost ( 1875 ), Piano Concerto in A minor, marches and songs.

They are entertained with the usual college theatricals, including productions of William Strode's allegory The Floating Island ( with music by Henry Lawes ), which mocks William Prynne as the play-hating Melancholico ; George Wilde's Love's Hospital ; and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave ( also with music by Lawes, and design by Inigo Jones ).

* William Shakespeare-Henry IV, Part 1 and Love's Labor's Lost published

The wording derives from a passage in Act IV, scene III of William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost, in which the King of Navarre says " Black is the badge of hell / The hue of dungeons and the school of night.

Love's Labour's Lost is a 2000 adaptation of the comic play of the same name by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.

From top: marchant of vennis, taming of a shrew, knak to know a knave, knak to know an honest man, loves labor lost, loves labor won. Love's Labour's Won is the name of a play written by William Shakespeare before 1598.

In William Shakespeare's play, Love's Labours Lost, Berowne describes himself and his friends as ' four woodcocks in a dish ', after discovering they have all fallen in love when they have sworn not to.

It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.

Mr Arthur Acheson ( Shakespeare and the Rival Poet, 1903 ) brings much evidence in favor of the theory, first propounded by William Minto, that George Chapman, whose style is parodied by Shakespeare in the 21st sonnet and in Love's Labour's Lost, was the rival poet of the 78th and following sonnets.

It was suggested by William Warburton that Florio is satirised by William Shakespeare in the character of Holofernes, the pompous pedant of Love's Labors Lost, but it as likely, especially as he was one of the Earl of Southampton's protégés, that he was among the personal friends of the dramatist, who may have gained knowledge of French and Italian literature from him.

The first known association of the term " blow " with flies appears in the plays of William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, and Antony and Cleopatra.

The First Folio's publishing syndicate also included two stationers who owned the rights to some of the individual plays that had been previously printed: William Aspley ( Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV, Part 2 ) and John Smethwick ( Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet ).

* 2007 Love's Labour's Lost ( Koi no honeorizon )（ 恋の骨折り損 ）-by William Shakespeare

The hornbook is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 1, where the ba, the a, e, i, o, u, and the horn, are alluded to by Moth:

Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare.

* Love's Labor's Lost, a comedy by William Shakespeare

He was also the inspiration behind the character Berowne in William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.