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

• Aaron SorkinRelated: Sorkin has identified Shakespeare as a major influence on his dramatic writing.

• Arrigo BoitoRelated: Boito drew on Shakespeare for the librettos of Otello and Falstaff.

• John, King of EnglandRelated: Shakespeare’s play helped shape later literary images of John and his political conflicts.

• Renaissance literatureRelated: His plays and poems became defining works of English Renaissance literature.

• Richard BurbageRelated: Shakespeare wrote the major roles Burbage originated, and the two worked within the same acting company.

• Richard III (play)Related: Shakespeare turns Richard’s reign into a study of theatrical self-invention and political violence.

• British popular cultureRelated: Adaptations and quotations keep his work present in popular entertainment and everyday speech.

• 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.

• Francesco Maria PiaveCompared with: Shakespeare’s Macbeth was the source text Piave adapted, making authorship and adaptation distinct roles.

• 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.

• PoetBroader topic: Shakespeare joined poetic craft to drama and helped shape the English sonnet tradition.

• 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.

• Mark RylanceNarrower topic: Shakespeare's plays are central to Rylance's stage repertoire and Globe leadership.

• 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.

• Derek JacobiNarrower topic: Shakespeare’s plays have supplied Jacobi with major stage roles throughout his career.

• 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 FalstaffNarrower topic: Shakespeare created Falstaff and shaped his role across several plays.