His theory was based on perceived analogies between Oxford's life and poetic techniques in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

There are several works about Falstaff, inspired by Shakespeare's plays:

Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called the Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Sir John " Jockey " Oldcastle appears as a dissolute companion of the young Henry.

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 ).

In 1598, Francis Meres published his Palladis Tamia, a survey of English literature from Chaucer to its present day, within which twelve of Shakespeare's plays are named.

Traditionally, editors of Shakespeare's plays have divided them into five acts.

For example, in Shakespeare's day, plays were usually expected to follow the advice of Aristotle in his Poetics: that a drama should focus on action, not character.

Finally, in a period when most plays ran for two hours or so, the full text of Hamlet — Shakespeare's longest play, with 4, 042 lines, totalling 29, 551 words — takes over four hours to deliver.

It became the first of Shakespeare's plays to be presented with movable flats painted with generic scenery behind the proscenium arch of Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.

* William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, and the films made from these two plays ( played by Marlon Brando and Robert Speaight, respectively ).

One year later, the play was included among the plays in the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected plays.

The Oxfordian case is based on purported similarities between Oxford's biography and events in Shakespeare's narrative works ; parallels of language, idiom, and thought between Oxford's letters and the Shakespearean canon ; and marked passages in Oxford's Bible that appear in some form in Shakespeare's plays.

Following earlier anti-Stratfordians, Looney argued that the known facts of Shakespeare's life did not fit the personality he ascribed to the author of the plays.

Its distributor, Sony Pictures, advertised that the film " presents a compelling portrait of Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's plays ," and commissioned high school and college-level lesson plans to promote the authorship question to history and literature teachers across the United States.

One major evidential objection to the Oxfordian theory is Edward de Vere's 1604 death, after which a number of Shakespeare's plays are conventionally believed to have been written, according to 300 years of orthodox scholarship.

While there is no documentary evidence connecting Oxford ( or any authorial candidate ) to the plays of Shakespeare, Oxfordian researchers, including Mark Anderson and Charlton Ogburn, believe the connection is provided by considerable circumstantial evidence inferred from Oxford's connections to the Elizabethan theatre and poetry scene ; the participation of his family in the printing and publication of the First Folio ; his relationship with the Earl of Southampton ( believed by most Shakespeare scholars to have been Shakespeare's patron ); as well as a number of specific incidents and circumstances of Oxford's life that Oxfordians believe are depicted in the plays themselves.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

Almost half of Shakespeare's plays are set in Italy, many of them containing details of Italian laws, customs, and culture which Oxfordians believe could only have been obtained by personal experiences in Italy, and especially in Venice.

Mainstream scholars stress that any supposedly special knowledge of the aristocracy appearing in the plays can be more easily explained by Shakespeare's life-time of performances before nobility and royalty, and possibly, as Gibson theorises, " by visits to his patron's house, as Marlowe visited Walsingham.

For mainstream critics, the most compelling evidence against Oxford ( besides the historical evidence for William Shakespeare ) is his death in 1604, since the generally-accepted chronology of Shakespeare's plays places the composition of approximately twelve of the plays after that date.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

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

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

Allen later changed his mind about Hughes and decided that the concealed child was the Earl of Southampton, the dedicatee of Shakespeare's narrative poems.

The Bible contained 1, 028 marked passages, about a quarter of which appear in Shakespeare's works as either a theme, allusion, or quotation.

In his preface, Wilde writes about Caliban, a character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

The second part ( concerning the caskets, known to English speakers from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ) originates from about 800 AD from Joannes Damascensus's account of Barlaam and Josaphat and was written in Greek.

In 1951, Leigh and Olivier performed two plays about Cleopatra, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, alternating the play each night and winning good reviews.

George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished ; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen.

The original texts of Shakespeare's plays do not have cast lists, and can sometimes be inconsistent about what they call characters, but he is a particularly awkward case.

Nielsen: " Supposedly a science fiction version of William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's The Tempest, it was all about the Id, ego and super-ego | id, or something like that.

Thomas Platter the Younger, a Swiss traveller, saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a Bankside theatre on 21 September 1599 and this was most likely Shakespeare's play, as there is no obvious alternative candidate.

The play commemorated the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death and is still talked about today.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is influenced by the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ( Metamorphoses Book 4 ), and, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a band of amateur actors performs a play about Pyramus and Thisbe.

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.

They hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment.

Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: ' Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

From 1995 to 2000, Kaufman directed three independent films distributed in limited theatrical releases: Tromeo and Juliet, a loose parody of Shakespeare's play ; Terror Firmer, a slasher film loosely based on Kaufman's book All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, and an independent film sequel to The Toxic Avenger trilogy titled Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

Rowse's " discoveries " about Shakespeare's sonnets amount to the following:

In the sonnets, Shakespeare's explicit erotic interest lies with the Dark Lady ; he obsesses about her.

* In Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman: Dream Country, Will Kempe is depicted in the issue A Midsummer Night's Dream, a short story about Shakespeare's first performance of the play.

The play anachronistically places Sir John Falstaff, who had previously appeared in Shakespeare's plays about the medieval King Henry IV and set circa 1400, in the contemporary setting of the Elizabethan era, circa 1600.

* In an episode of their BBC radio show on Shakespeare's plays, the Reduced Shakespeare Company suggests that Cardenio is a " children's play about the legend of King Arthur ", and performs a short sketch based on this idea.