Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

However, other scholars have found Grillo's arguments unpersuasive, arguing that Shakespeare could have derived much of this material from John Florio, an Italian scholar living in England who was later thanked by Ben Jonson for helping him get Italian details right for his play Volpone.

Bradbury was related to the American Shakespeare scholar Douglas Spaulding.

* The Second Maiden's Tragedy, a tragedy ( 1611 ); an anonymous manuscript ; stylistic analysis indicates Middleton's authorship ( though one scholar, Charles Hamilton, has attributed it to Shakespeare ; see The History of Cardenio for details ).

* Edmond Malone, Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare

According to scholar Larry Kreitzer, The Undiscovered Country has more references to William Shakespeare than any other Star Trek work until at least 1996.

" Shakespeare scholar Paul A. Cantor argues that this association is appropriate — the warlike Klingons find their literary matches in the characters Othello, Mark Antony, and Macbeth — but that it also reinforces a claim that the end of the Cold War means the end of heroic literature such as Shakespeare's.

He got along well with the one Leale sister, who shared his love of literature ( notably Shakespeare — his tutor at UCL was the Shakespeare scholar W. J. Craig — and Milton ) and spoke fluent French, much to his admiration.

* June 23-Israel Gollancz, Shakespeare scholar ( born 1864 )

Marie was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Henry Stopes, a brewer, engineer, architect and palaeontologist and the Shakespeare scholar and women's rights campaigner Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.

His contribution to the English-language literature are also manifold: as a scholar and author of a series of publications on Skanderbeg, Shakespeare, Beethoven, religious texts and translations.

* Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and playwright Charles L. Mee collaborated on a contemporary re-imagining of Cardenio.

) The next scholar to examine the manuscripts was John Payne Collier, who inserted forgeries supporting his theories about Shakespeare.

* Professor Emrys Jones ( 1931-2012, b. Hoxton ), scholar on Shakespeare and the Renaissance who spent his teenage years in Neath as an evacuee, of Welsh parentage ;

His father, William Henry Furness, was a prominent Unitarian minister and abolitionist, and his brother, Horace Howard Furness, became America's outstanding Shakespeare scholar.

: First attribution to Shakespeare: 1871-2, Shakespearean appearance of ms. additions to the play first noted by Richard Simpson, a prominent Shakespeare scholar, and by James Spedding, editor of the works of Sir Francis Bacon.

Some commentators ( like Georg Brandes, the Danish Shakespeare scholar of the late 19th century ) have attempted to reconcile these contradictory claims by arguing that the play was composed originally around 1600 – 02, but heavily revised shortly before its 1609 printing.

Kittredge, in addition to being a well-known scholar of Chaucer and Shakespeare, was the son-in-law of renowned ballad scholar Francis James Child, whose professorship of English literature he inherited, and who continued Child's work in folklore. It was Kittredge who pioneered modern methods of ballad study, and who encouraged collectors to get out of their armchairs and library halls and to get out into the countryside to collect ballads first hand.

The gargoyles on the top level depict Yale's students at war and in study ( a pen-wielding writer, a proficient athlete, a tea-drinking socialite, and a diligent scholar ), along with masks of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

The situation changed in 1998 when Shakespeare scholar and " literary detective " Don Foster-who had gained publicity by correctly identifying Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors-fingered an obscure Beat poet and writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the letters.

Initially Foster did not claim that his identification was definitive, but in 1995 another Shakespeare scholar, Richard Abrams of the University of Southern Maine, published an article strengthening Foster's claims of the Elegys Shakespearean authorship.

Sam Waterston later played the role himself at the Delacorte for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the show transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1975 ( Stephen Lang played Bernardo and other roles ).

At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world.

It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1998, but was beaten by Stephen Warbeck's score for Shakespeare in Love.

Stephen Roy Miller in his 1998 edition of A Shrew for the Cambridge Shakespeare agrees with the Oliver / Thompson date of late 1591 / early 1592, as he too believes The Shrew preceded A Shrew ( although he rejects the reported text theory in favour of an adaptation / rewrite theory ).

One of the most extensive examinations of the question came in 1998 in Stephen Roy Miller's edition of A Shrew for the Cambridge Shakespeare.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Whereas Greg had limited his illustrative examples to English Renaissance drama, where his expertise lay, Bowers argued that the rationale was " the most workable editorial principle yet contrived to produce a critical text that is authoritative in the maximum of its details whether the author be Shakespeare, Dryden, Fielding, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Stephen Crane.

And, while the play's textual critics have sharply disagreed about editorial methodology in the last half-century, almost all of them, beginning with F. D. Hoeniger with his 1963 Arden 2 edition, have been enthusiastic about Pericles ( Other, more recent, critics have been Stephen Orgel ( Pelican Shakespeare ), Suzanne Gossett ( Arden 3 ), Roger Warren ( Reconstructed Oxford ), Harold Bloom said that the play works well on the stage despite its problems.

*" Shakespeare and the Invention of the Heterosexual ", by Stephen Guy-Bray ; Early Modern Literary Studies, 13: 2 ( October 2007 ), 1 – 28.

There are five major scholarly editions of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Riverside Shakespeare ( G. Blakemore Evans, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1996 ), The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1986 ; 2nd edn., 2005 ), The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition ( Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard and Katharine Eisaman Haus, 1997 ; 2nd edn., 2008 ), The Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works ( Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, 1998 ; 2nd edn.

His biographical / critical concepts, particularly in connection with Shakespeare, are played with by Stephen Dedalus in the library chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses.

** Shakespeare in Love – Stephen Warbeck

Stephen Sondheim adapted The Frogs to a musical of the same name, using characters of George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare instead of the Greek playwrights.

In 2008, Shakespeare and Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt collaborated with Mee to write Cardenio.

Although he continued to work on stage ( notably in the National Theatre's The Mysteries in 1986 ), film ( The Fruit Machine in 1988, aka Wonderland in the USA and Henry V ), and television ( notably in the role of Abner Brown in the 1984 BBC TV dramatisation of the children's classic The Box of Delights and as the Master of an Oxford college in an episode of Inspector Morse ), it was not until the 1990s that he re-established himself at the forefront of his profession, when the Royal Shakespeare Company invited him to play Falstaff in Henry IV for director Adrian Noble ( opening April 1991 ), the title roles in Julius Caesar ( director Stephen Pimlott ) later in the year and then King Lear, again for Noble, in May 1993.

* Stephen Greenblatt ( 1960 ) – Shakespeare scholar, academic, literary critic, pioneer of New Historicism.

He translated several books and plays by William Shakespeare, Stephen Leacock and Henrik Ibsen.

Notorious for a life of dissipation and debauchery somewhat similar to Falstaff, he was among the first to mention Shakespeare in his work ( in Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit ), suggesting to Greenblatt that the older writer may have influenced Shakespeare's characterization.

* Shakespeare and the Uses of Power by Steven Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt considers it likely thatTamburlaine was among the first London plays that Shakespeare saw, an experience that directly inspired his early work like the three Henry VI plays.

M. H. Abrams, a critic and scholar of Romanticism, served as General Editor for its first seven editions, before handing the job to Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar and Harvard professor.

Greenblatt joined the editorial team during the 1990s: " When Norton asked Greenblatt-who was already editor of " The Norton Shakespeare "-to join the team as Abrams's deputy in the mid-90s, Abrams said he was initially skeptical because of their different critical approaches, but quickly came around.