When Hamlet kills Polonius, Claudius recruits Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to escort Hamlet to England, providing them with a letter for the King of England instructing him to have Hamlet killed. Along the journey, the distrustful Hamlet finds and rewrites the letter, instructing the executioner to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead.

Malcolm says to Macduff: "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell: Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so."

In the backstage world of theatre, some actors believe that Macbeth is cursed, and refuse to speak its name aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish Play".

The film depicts an imaginary love affair between Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) while he was writing Romeo and Juliet.

Sometimes called "the Bastard", Don John is melancholy and sullen by nature, and he creates a dark scheme to ruin the happiness of Hero and Claudio.

The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.

Most academics agree that Shakespeare wrote his first play, Henry VI, Part One around 1590 when he would have been roughly 25 years old.

His last play, The Two Noble Kinsmen is believed to have been written in 1613 when he was 49 years old.

There are five suicides in Antony and Cleopatra: Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Eros.

Lysander said this in A Midsummer Night's Dream.