Shakespeare famously alludes to this description when writing of Falstaff's death in Act II, Scene iii.

Even thirty years after his death " Sultan Solyman " was quoted by the English playwright William Shakespeare as a military prodigy in The Merchant of Venice ( Act 2, Scene 1 ).

* There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend — Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3 ( 1594 )

"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ' Act I, sc.

More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).

Shakespeare sings the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, when asked about his view of death ( the song is titled " Fear No More ").

Shakespeare scholars describe unicorns being captured by a hunter standing in front of a tree, the unicorn goaded into charging ; the hunter would step aside the last moment and the unicorn would embed its horn deeply into the tree ( See annotations of Timon of Athens, Act 4, scene 3, c. line 341: " wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury "

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?

" Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1

" Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1

Illustration of the death of Chiron and Demetrius from Act 5, Scene 2 ; from The Works of Mr. William Shakespeare, edited by Nicholas Rowe ( writer ) | Nicholas Rowe ( 1709 )

Aaron has a much larger role in Ravenscroft than in Shakespeare, especially in Act 1, where lines originally assigned to Demetrius and Tamora are given to him.

* Jackson, Macdonald P. " Stage Directions and Speech Headings in Act 1 of Titus Andronicus Q ( 1594 ): Shakespeare or Peele?

* Shakespeare, in Henry IV Part II Act 4 Scene 4 refers to aconite, alongside rash gunpowder, working as strongly as the " venom of suggestion " to break up close relationships ( cf Iago's role in Othello ).

Julius Caesar Ibbetson illustration of Act 4, Scene 5 ( Petruchio insists the moon is shining and Ketherina agrees ) from Boydell Shakespeare Gallery | The Boydell Shakespeare Prints ; engraved by Isaac Taylor ( 1759 – 1829 ) | Isaac Taylor ( 1803 ).

Arthur Rackham illustration of Act 5, Scene 2 from Tales from Shakespeare, edited by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb ( 1890 )

In literature, François Rabelais compares Gargantua's strength to that of Milo's in Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Shakespeare refers anachronistically to " bull-bearing Milo " in Act 2 of Troilus and Cressida.

James emphasizes the various ways in which Shakespeare ’ s play subverts the ideology of the Virgilian tradition ; one such instance of this subversion is Cleopatra ’ s dream of Antony in Act 5 (“ I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony ” ).

In their first exchange in Act I, scene 1, Cleopatra says to Antony, “ I ’ ll set a bourn how far to be beloved .” In this case Cleopatra speaks in an authoritative and affirming sense to her lover, which to Shakespeare ’ s audience would be uncharacteristic for a female lover.

* Coriolanus ( Act I, Scene 3 ) by William Shakespeare

* Hamlet ( Act II, Scene 2 ) by Shakespeare

* Cymbeline ( Act IV, Scene 2 ) by Shakespeare

Familiar as his garter " ( Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1.

Yet, most tellingly, Shakespeare adapts, with minor changes, a passage from Book 7 of the Golding translation into an important speech in Act V of The Tempest.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

" The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: " With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.

In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

David Garrick at Drury Lane produced a version that adapted Shakespeare heavily ; he declared: " I had sworn I would not leave the stage till I had rescued that noble play from all the rubbish of the fifth act.

:: Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra I. v

Dr. John Ward's 1662 diary entry stating that Shakespeare wrote two plays a year " and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1, 000 a year " as a critical piece of evidence, since Queen Elizabeth I gave Oxford an annuity of exactly £ 1, 000 beginning in 1586 that was continued until his death.

Whether Shakespeare knew the unities, and rejected them by design, or deviated from them by happy ignorance, it is, I think, impossible to decide, and useless to inquire.

Bowdler announced his desire to make Shakespeare accessible " without incurring the danger of falling unawares among words and expressions which are of such a nature as to raise a blush on the cheek of modesty "; a character in Patience declares, " I believe I am right in saying that there is not one word in that decalet which is calculated to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty.

I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Shakespeare made the reference to priests because the religious use of equivocation was well known in those periods of early modern England ( e. g. under James VI / I ) when it was a capital offence for a Roman Catholic priest to enter England.

Unlike the Induction and the main plot however, there is a recognised source for Shakespeare's sub-plot, first suggested by Alfred Tolman in 1890 ; Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi ( 1551 ), which Shakespeare used either directly or through George Gascoigne's English prose translation Supposes ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ).

As Gremio does have a counterpart in I Suppositi, Miller concludes that " to argue the priority of A Shrew in this case would mean arguing that Shakespeare took the negative hints from the speeches of Polidor and Phylema and gave them to a character he resurrected from Supposes.

It is so self-evidently repellent that I don't believe for a second that Shakespeare is espousing this.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

He painted miniatures and altarpieces, landscapes and frescoes, historical and religious scenes, and subjects from the Bible, Greek mythology and Shakespeare.

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

Shakespeare also incorporated many chase scenes and beatings into his comedies, such as in his play The Comedy of Errors.

In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the " shrewd and knavish sprite " and " that merry wanderer of the night " in some scenes it would seem that he is longing for freedom and he is also a jester to Oberon, the fairy king.

" However, Shakespeare also adds scenes, including many of the ones portraying Cleopatra's domestic life, and the role of Enobarbus is greatly developed.

Shakespeare uses this technique in the final scenes of Julius Caesar.

The musical Kiss Me, Kate is about the production of a fictitious musical, The Taming of the Shrew, based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, and features several scenes from it.

He wanders without establishing himself anywhere, and acts in scenes of William Shakespeare for supplies.

Stylistic analysis has also produced evidence that at least some scenes were written by Shakespeare.

Some scholars, notably Eric Sams, have argued that the play is entirely by Shakespeare, but today, scholarly opinion is divided, with many researchers asserting that the play is an early collaborative work, of which Shakespeare wrote only a few scenes.

In 2009, Brian Vickers published the results of a computer analysis, with a program designed to detect plagiarism, which suggest that 40 % of the play was written by Shakespeare with the other scenes written by Thomas Kyd ( 1558 – 1594 ).

Only Holinshed contains information about the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, which Shakespeare used for the scenes of Cade's rebellion throughout Act 4 ( for example, details such as having people killed because they could read, and promises of setting up a state with no money ).

The courtly scenes tend to be spoken in blank verse, whereas the commons tend to speak in prose, with fewer metaphors and less decorative language ( Shakespeare uses this contrast in several plays, such as The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where prose marks the servants out from their masters ).

As such, the scenes of Jack Cade's rebellion, as depicted in Misery, were much more violent than in Shakespeare, with painted backdrops of people on fire and children impaled on pikes.

Blake's work changed direction featuring scenes based on English Folklore and characters from Shakespeare.

Also in 1911, she recorded scenes from five Shakespeare roles for the Victor Talking Machine Company, the only known recordings of her voice.

She also gave scenes from Shakespeare plays in music halls under the management of Oswald Stoll.

In the 1790s, Boydell began a large Shakespeare venture that included the establishment of a Shakespeare Gallery, the publication of an illustrated edition of Shakespeare's plays, and the release of a folio of prints depicting scenes from Shakespeare's works.

In particular the satirical engraver James Gillray appears to have been peeved at not being commissioned to engrave any of the Shakespeare scenes and, in revenge, published Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice just six weeks after the gallery opened.

Many scholars believe that Shakespeare himself, who was just starting out as a writer, only contributed some scenes to the play.