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

• Franco ZeffirelliRelated: Shakespeare’s plays supplied the source material for several of Zeffirelli’s best-known films.

• Tudor periodRelated: His career belongs to the period’s flourishing theatrical culture.

• William Holman HuntRelated: Shakespearean subjects connected Hunt’s early painting to the period’s literary imagination.

• AnagramRelated: Anagrams of his name have circulated as literary jokes and disputed claims about authorship.

• Edgar Lee MastersRelated: Masters’s early poetry and literary ambitions were strongly shaped by Shakespeare’s writing.

• Patrick StewartRelated: Shakespeare’s plays have been central to Stewart’s stage repertoire.

• ShylockRelated: Shakespeare created Shylock and placed him within a comedy shaped by anti-Jewish conventions.

• Ted HughesRelated: Hughes’s Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being presents an ambitious interpretation of Shakespeare’s works.

• Vienna BurgtheaterRelated: German translations of his plays have long belonged to the Burgtheater’s dramatic repertory.

• Alec GuinnessRelated: Guinness built his early reputation in Shakespearean stage roles, including Hamlet.

• Anthony BurgessRelated: Burgess’s fiction repeatedly engages Shakespeare as both a historical figure and a linguistic force.

• Edward AlleynRelated: Shakespeare worked in the same theatrical world, though Alleyn was associated chiefly with a rival company.

• Edwin BoothRelated: Shakespeare’s plays supplied the roles through which Booth established his reputation.

• History of theatreRelated: His plays became central to the repertories and histories of theatres worldwide.

• OthelloRelated: He transformed a short Italian tale into a tragedy centered on language, trust, and manipulation.

• Sonnet 18Related: He wrote Sonnet 18 as part of his sequence of English sonnets.

• Edith EvansRelated: Evans became renowned for her interpretations of Shakespearean characters.

• Jacobean eraRelated: Several of his late plays were written and performed during James’s reign.

• Jean FroissartRelated: Shakespeare’s historical world drew on chronicles, including Froissart’s, for material about the past.

• Lady MacbethRelated: Shakespeare created Lady Macbeth as a character whose actions drive the play’s opening catastrophe.

• The Daughter of TimeRelated: His stage villain helped make Richard’s guilt a familiar cultural assumption.

• WarwickshireRelated: His birthplace made Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwickshire central to his public legacy.

• Ian McKellenRelated: Shakespeare’s plays have been central to McKellen’s stage career.

• Orlando: A BiographyRelated: Orlando’s attachment to Shakespeare’s poetry helps frame the novel’s changing literary ideals.

• Terry EagletonRelated: Eagleton’s William Shakespeare reads the plays through conflict, ideology, and historical change.

• Tom StoppardRelated: Stoppard repeatedly borrows Shakespearean characters, plots, and theatrical forms.

• Western cultureRelated: His plays became central to English-language literature and global performance.

• Alberico GentiliRelated: Gentili was consulted in connection with legal questions associated with Shakespeare’s theatrical company.

• As You Like ItRelated: He wrote the comedy, likely in the late 1590s.

• Captain AhabRelated: Melville gives Ahab Shakespearean grandeur through soliloquies and tragic command.

• Michael FassbenderRelated: Fassbender performed in stage productions of Shakespeare before his screen career took off.

• Peter DinklageRelated: Dinklage’s theater career includes performances in Shakespearean productions.

• Troilus and CressidaRelated: This play belongs to his dramatic works and reflects his experiments with genre.

• Friedrich GundolfRelated: Gundolf’s 1911 study interpreted Shakespeare as a formative artistic personality and cultural force.

• George SaintsburyRelated: Shakespeare’s place in the canon is central to the historical tradition Saintsbury surveyed.

• HamnetRelated: The film imagines the family life of the historical playwright.

• Howard JacobsonRelated: Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name recasts a character from Shakespeare’s play.

• Ira AldridgeRelated: Aldridge’s reputation rested heavily on interpreting Shakespeare’s leading roles.

• John Keats's 1819 odesRelated: Keats admired Shakespeare’s imaginative range and dramatic handling of conflicting feeling.

• Malcolm LowryRelated: Shakespearean language and references appear within Lowry’s dense literary allusions.

• Michael HordernRelated: Shakespeare’s plays supplied Hordern with prominent stage and screen roles.

• Shakespeare's playsRelated: He is the playwright to whom the dramatic works are attributed.

• Sonnet 20Related: Shakespeare is the author traditionally credited with Sonnet 20.

• William KempeRelated: Kempe performed in Shakespeare’s company and is associated with comic roles in its plays.