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The 107 pages that link to William Shakespeare, each with the reason it gives.

• LondonRelated: Shakespeare's plays helped establish London's enduring theatrical reputation.

• T. S. EliotRelated: Eliot’s criticism repeatedly engaged Shakespeare’s poetic and dramatic achievement.

• PoetryRelated: Shakespeare’s sonnets helped make the English sonnet a lasting poetic form.

• Blank verseRelated: Shakespeare made blank verse a highly adaptable medium for theatrical speech.

• Samuel JohnsonRelated: Johnson edited Shakespeare’s plays and judged their literary achievement.

• SonnetRelated: His sonnets made the English form a lasting model for love, time, and poetic art.

• Francis BaconRelated: Bacon’s name later became attached to unsupported claims that he secretly wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

• Giuseppe VerdiRelated: Verdi repeatedly returned to Shakespeare, culminating in Otello and Falstaff.

• Akira KurosawaRelated: Kurosawa drew on Macbeth and King Lear for two of his most ambitious films.

• EnjambmentBroader topic: His sonnets often make a sentence cross line endings, sustaining thought through the poem.

• Miguel de CervantesRelated: Both writers died in 1616 and helped define early modern European literature in different languages.

• Elizabethan theatreRelated: His plays became central to the repertory of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.

• English literatureRelated: His plays became central to English drama and profoundly influenced the language.

• Iambic pentameterRelated: His plays and poems made varied pentameter familiar across genres.

• PetrarchRelated: Shakespeare’s sonnets engage with and sometimes challenge the conventions inherited from Petrarch.

• Jorge Luis BorgesRelated: Borges used Shakespeare to probe authorship, influence, and the afterlife of literary works.

• MonologueRelated: His plays made extended character speeches central to English-language drama.

• PlautusRelated: The Comedy of Errors reworks the twin-confusion plot associated with Plautus’s Menaechmi.

• British theatreRelated: His plays remain central to British repertory and theatrical interpretation.

• Early Modern EnglishRelated: His plays and poems are prominent examples of Early Modern English in literary use.

• Elizabethan eraBroader topic: His career began and flourished during the era’s theatrical expansion.

• Seneca the YoungerRelated: Senecan drama helped shape the conventions and rhetoric of Shakespearean tragedy.

• PetrarchismRelated: His sonnets borrow Petrarchan conventions while often exposing their artificiality.

• Shakespearean actingRelated: His scripts supply the language, roles, and dramatic structures actors interpret.

• SoliloquyRelated: His tragedies and comedies established many of the best-known English soliloquies.

• Repertory theatreRelated: His plays are repeatedly revived by repertory companies in changing combinations.

• NeologismRelated: Many English words and senses are first recorded in his works, though he may not have coined them.

• Ben JonsonRelated: Shakespeare and Jonson worked in the same theatrical world and publicly praised one another’s work.

• Boris PasternakRelated: Pasternak translated several Shakespeare plays into Russian.

• Christopher MarloweRelated: Shakespeare worked in the theatrical world Marlowe helped shape and followed his example in dramatic verse.

• EnglandBroader topic: His writing helped define the global reputation of English literature.

• Petrarchan sonnetCompared with: His sonnets offer a prominent alternative to the octave-sestet arrangement.

• Romantic dramaRelated: His plays established influential dramatic patterns for both comic and tragic love.

• The TempestRelated: The Tempest is one of the plays commonly placed among his late romances.

• Herman MelvilleRelated: Melville drew on Shakespearean language and tragedy, especially in the speeches and dramatic structure of Moby-Dick.

• James I of EnglandRelated: Shakespeare’s company received royal patronage after James’s accession.

• John BarrymoreRelated: Barrymore’s reputation rested especially on interpreting Shakespeare’s major roles.

• King's MenRelated: Shakespeare was a shareholder and principal playwright in the company.

• English RenaissanceBroader topic: His plays became the era’s most enduring works for the public stage.

• English Renaissance theatreRelated: His career with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and King’s Men spans the period’s central decades.

• Lope de VegaRelated: Comparisons between Shakespeare and Lope reveal parallel theatrical cultures in early modern Europe.

• Stage actingRelated: His plays demand shifts between rhetorical language, comic timing, and intimate characterization.

• Chikamatsu MonzaemonRelated: Comparing the two dramatists highlights distinct theatrical traditions and their shared interest in tragic conflict.

• Edmund SpenserCompared with: Shakespeare’s theatrical realism offers a striking contrast to Spenser’s romance epic.

• Geneva BibleRelated: The Geneva Bible is one source often considered when tracing biblical language in his plays.

• Harold BloomRelated: Bloom treated Shakespeare as the central, unmatched figure of the Western literary canon.

• Horace WalpoleRelated: Walpole admired Shakespeare’s mixture of comic and tragic effects and drew on that model.

• Kenneth BranaghRelated: Branagh’s directing career is especially associated with bringing Shakespeare’s plays to film.

• Peter BrookNarrower topic: Brook repeatedly returned to Shakespeare, reshaping his plays through radical staging.

• Peter HallRelated: Shakespeare’s plays formed a defining part of Hall’s directing and institutional work.