Hermione in The Winter’s Tale is the character in Shakespeare’s play who is mistaken for a statue.
Prospero, who is gifted with magical powers is Shakespeare’s superman. He is presented in the
play The Tempest.
In Much Ado About Nothing, Dogberry is the character who uses Malapropism. Instead of
the word ‘apprehend’ he uses the word ‘comprehend’.
As You Like It and Pericles introduces the
theme of recognition of the long lost daughter.
The last four plays of Shakespeare are Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest
and Henry VIII.
The archetype in the last plays of Shakespeare is the symbolic image of rebirth through
suffering and purgation.
We have the song "Under the Greenwood Tree"
in As You Like It.
Shakespeare caricatures ‘Police’ through characters Elbow in Measure for Measure and
Dogberry & Verges in Much Ado About Nothing and Dull in Love’s Labour’s
Lost.
‘The Pedantic Schoolmaster’ is caricatured in Love’s
Labour’s Lost through the character Holofernes.
‘The Amateur Actor’ is caricatured in Midsummer Night’s
Dream through Bottom and his Company.
Christopher Sly in The Taming of the Shrew is "By birth a pedler, by education a card
maker and by profession, a tinker."
Rosalind, in disguise of a man wore a gallant curtle-axe upon her thigh and a boar spear over her
head in the comedy As You Like It.
Twelfth Night, opens with the lines "If music be the food
of love, play on."
Imogen is the heroine who A C Swineburne, in his study of
Shakespeare, refers to as the woman best loved in all the world of song and all the tide of time.
Oliva & Orsino in Twelfth Night,
Rosaline & Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Beatrice & Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing are three
instances in Shakespeare’s plays in which the theme of love at first sight is introduced.
Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest are plays
of Shakespeare that describe storm at sea.
Ben Jonson calls Shakespeare’s Pericles a mouldy
tale because Pericles was an old play exhumed and retold by Shakespeare.
Thomas Nash is satirised as Moth in
Love’s Labour’s Lost.
The Merry Wives of Windsor, produced by Oscar Ache in 1929, was a play of Shakespeare in modern dress with telephones, cocktails and
golf-clubs and Anne Page riding on the back of Fenton’s motorcycle.
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