Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

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

* 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:

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

Owain is perhaps best remembered outside Wales as the mysterious Welshman of ' Owen Glendower ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 who claims to be able to " call spirits from the vasty deep ," and proves later on that he can, at least, summon unearthly music.

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.

" 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.

Margaret is a major character in William Shakespeare's three-part play Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Many people are familiar with William Shakespeare's melodramatic version of events in Henry VI, Part 3, notably the murder of Edmund of Rutland, although Edmund is depicted as a small child, and following his unnecessary slaughter by Clifford, Margaret torments his father, York, before murdering him also.

" Kate, Bianca, Ruth and Sarah: Playing the Woman's Part in The Taming of the Shrew " in M. J. Collins ( editor ), Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies ( Newark: Associated University Presses, 1997 ), 176 – 215

The historical parallels in the succession of Richard II may not have been intended as political comment on the contemporary situation, with the weak Richard II analogous to Queen Elizabeth and an implicit argument in favour of her replacement by a monarch capable of creating a stable dynasty, but lawyers investigating John Hayward's historical work, The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV, a book partly derived from Shakespeare's Richard II, chose to make this connection.

The battle itself and many of the key people involved appear in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1.

* Thomas of Woodstock ( play ), also known as Richard II, Part One, 1590s play treating events prior to Shakespeare's play

Olivier's film incorporates a few scenes and speeches from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part III and Cibber's rewrite of Shakespeare's play, but cuts entirely the characters of Queen Margaret and the Duchess of York, and Richard's soliloquy after seeing the ghosts of his victims.

Henry VI, Part 2 has the largest cast of all Shakespeare's plays, and is seen by many critics as the best of the Henry VI trilogy.

He appears in William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 as John of Lancaster, and in Henry V and Henry VI, Part 1 as Duke of Bedford.

* John Crowne-The Misery of Civil War, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 and Part 3

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

Their lively version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ( 1967 ), directed by Franco Zeffirelli, was a notable success.

In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, the schoolmaster who pretends to be Lucentio's father, Vincentio, is from Mantua.

Padua is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Over the course of the next three years, four plays with their name on the title page were published ; Christopher Marlowe's Edward II ( published in quarto in July 1593 ), and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ( published in quarto in 1594 ), The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York ( published in octavo in 1595 ) and The Taming of a Shrew ( published in quarto in May, 1594 ).

* "' Caparisoned like the horse ': Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ", by LaRue Love Sloan ; Early Modern Literary Studies, 10: 2 ( September, 2004 ), 1 – 24.

It was named after the sister of Katherine in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew.

In Shakespeare's time it was common practice for the wife to be submissive, as expressed in The Taming of the Shrew.

On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance.

He did not really pick up his rate of output until the 1920s, when he wrote Das Himmelskleid ( 1925 ) and Sly ( 1927 ), the latter based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio compares Katherina " As Socrates ' Xanthippe or a worse " in Act 1 Scene 2.

Walter Sickert painted Edith Evans as Katharina, the lead character in Shakespeare's romantic comedy, The Taming of the Shrew.

* John Lacy – Sauny the Scot, or the Taming of the Shrew ( adapted from Shakespeare's play )

In April 1996 Geraint appeared as Petruchio in Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew, directed by Patrick Tucker of the Original Shakespeare Company.

Three of Shakespeare's plays are set in Verona: Romeo and Juliet ; The Two Gentlemen of Verona ; and The Taming of the Shrew.

In 1976 he wrote It ’ s Showdown Time, a raucous adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

* 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.

The film, a modernization of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, is titled after a poem written by the film's female lead ( played by Stiles ) to describe her bittersweet romance with the male lead ( played by Ledger ).

The term gamut was adopted from the field of music, where it means the set of pitches of which musical melodies are composed ; Shakespeare's use of the term in The Taming of the Shrew is sometimes attributed to the author / musician Thomas Morley.

* Bianca Minola, from William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew

* 11 The Taming of the Shrew * – typeset from Shakespeare's " foul papers ," somewhat annotated, perhaps as preparation for use as a prompt-book.

He attended Louisiana Tech on a music stipend for two years before transferring to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where he performed for the first time on stage as Petruchio in a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

The Batjac Production is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.