he was a vampire, given eternal life, and lived his later years under the names jack the ripper, the loch ness monster, queen victoria, and kenny everett.

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Audience confusion was why he had to use the line "A Horse! A Horse! My kingdom For A Horse!" Nobody else could figure out what a Yugo was.

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The line from The Raven "Maybe Later" was changed by Shakespeare's image advisor suggestion at the very last minute to "Nevermore" since the former sounded somehow necrophiliac

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"Coriolanus" was originally written as a buddy comedy. After a disastrous first performance was driven from the stage by a storm of rotten vegetables, it was remade into the version we know.

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Romeo & Juliette is being banned from Texas schools for depictions of children engaging in sex acts.

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When Montjoy informs Henry V that the battle of Agincourt is won, Henry anachronistically and joyfully replies, "Tonight we shall make merry, as if 'twere 1599!"

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#FakeShakespeareFacts #HashtagGames NOT fake, but true- He was married to Anne Hathaway! Their marriage must have broken up when he died 407 years ago

"titus andronicus" was actually ghost-written by willie's very great friend in rome, biggus dickus.

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Othello was originally about the board game, but he came up against Product Displacement rules.

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If you only read every 42nd word of Julius Caesar, you will get the recipe of the salad named after the play.

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'A Midsummer's Nights Dream' was written after Willie dropped acid with Timothy Lear and Alan Ginsberg.

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At a campaign rally, he once pointed at the actor playing Aaron and said "Where's my Black? There he is!"

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Another first draft that Shakespeare had to significantly overhaul was Macbeth. The first draft was called Big Mac.

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Shakespeare wrote the missing half of the Canterbury Tales, but King John confiscated them so he could write royal proclamations on the back. Then they were sent to the Library of Alexandria, and you know how that ended.

Shakespeare woke up about 3AM, and wondered, “To pee, or not to pee?,” and the rest is history.

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Shakespeare had to be adroit with his social and political commentaries in his plays, which also means he couldn't ever go with the first draft of anything.

To be socially presentable, for example, he had to significantly rewrite his first draft of "The Taming of Shrewsbury".


When William was informed that his patrons put in an order for As You Like It, he jumped for joy and quipped,

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun! Would you like fries with that?!

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