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The Lord Chamberlain's Men started out as an improv troupe. Business exploded when Willie started scripting their sketches.

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Shakespeare's cookbooks didn't sell. The English didn't have any interest in good food.

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Shakespeare performed his plays at The Globe Theatre until it was burned down by Flat Earthers

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William was having high tea when, upon contemplating his cup, thought that Tempest was a good idea.

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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"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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