• an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
• during Shakespeare's time, it was commonly believed that there were five "outward" wits as well as five "inward" wits?
• on a 1922 expedition to Everest, Howard Somervell entertained fellow climbers by reading Shakespeare in the tents?
• the American composer Paul Moravec won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004 for his Shakespeare-inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy?
• The Yiddish King Lear by Jacob Gordin is not a translation of Shakespeare's King Lear, but that the title is an acknowledgement of the roots of the plot?
• New Place is the name given to Shakespeare's final place of residence in Stratford?
• English theatre director Steven Pimlott directed a wide variety of performances from popular musicals, through avant garde theatre and Shakespeare, to opera?
• English once had a four-form yes and no system, employed by Shakespeare and others, instead of the two-form system that it has today?
• Lady Macbeth wore a crown of saucepan lids in the 1933 production of Shakespeare's play, staged by Theodore Komisarjevsky in Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth"?
• Epenow, the Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII?
• 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?

Facts on topics related to Shakespeare

Shakespearean authorship

• according to the Marlovian theory of Shakespearean authorship, works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by playwright Christopher Marlowe, who faked his own death in 1593 to continue writing under a Shakespeare pseudonym?