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...ves of Windsor (1602) and Othello (1605), they were not created by William Shakespeare, and indeed were mentioned as early as the 5th century BC in "the Histories

...'s Dream''. In Shakespeare's play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy quee In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name 'Titania' from Ovid's '’Metamorphoses'', where it is an app

Lake Elsinore was named after the Danish city, Elsinore, in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Besides a lake monster, Lake Elsinore is rumored to also have gho

* Familiars were mentioned in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as the witches called their familiars. Many other works have uti

Famous fictional sprites include Shakespeare's Ariel and Puck. * Famous fictional sprites include Shakespeare's Ariel and Puck.

The earliest written account of Herne comes from from Shakespeare's ''Merry Wives of Windsor'' in 1597: ::— William Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''

...and they shall have good luck" said one of William Shakespeare's fairies. Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in ''A Midsummer Night's Dr * [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/folklore.html A folklore page, with a 1639 Puritan image

...ylphide” as well as a confusion with other "airy spirits" (e.g. in William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''), sylphs have become often identified with ...sylph in "The Rape of the Lock" has the same name as Prospero's servant in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'': Ariel.

Shakespeare refers to him in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ii. 1.

*In Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' (c. 1623), Act I, Scene II, St. Elmo's fire acquires a mo

...'''Auberon''', King of the fairy, is most famous as a character in William Shakespeare's play, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', written in the mid-1590s. Oberon giv Shakespeare saw or heard of the French heroic song, through the ''ca'' 1540 translation

* William Shakespeare (circa 1602), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Sc. III:

Queen '''Mab''' is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet''. Shakespeare depicted her in almost mockingly in:

'''Caliban''' is a fictional character in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Tempest'', a deformed monster who is the slave of '''Prospero'''. ...onialism by various postcolonial intellectuals. However, the fact that, in Shakespeare’s original, neither Caliban nor Sycorax are native to the island, but in

...ll take. Such an example of this is the contrast of Hamlet the legend, and Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. When a legend that is rooted in a kernel of truth is so stron

...xon, rather than Celtic, beliefs and is first mentioned in 1597 in William Shakespeare's play ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', Act 4, Scene 4. It is, however, poss

...e Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.' --- Shakespeare, Othello

...istophiles. The first adds Hebrew to the Latin and Greek mix. In addition, Shakespeare mentions Mephistophilus, with its Latinate ending, in the "Merry Wives of W

...o English. It influenced the writings of Shakespeare, Baudelaire, and Poe. Shakespeare based his character Caliban in "The Tempest" on Pigafetta`s account of the

...donkey's head. Orson Scott Card's ''Magic Street'' adds new fairy lore to Shakespeare's story and offers an alternative history of the play. Shakespeare carefully put in the mouth of his fairies:

...Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' to warn Brutus of his impending defeat. In Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', the title character believes he sees the "blood-bolter'd" gh

...ways this countenance is also reminiscent of a satyr or the appearance of Shakespeare’s Puck character in his play, ''A Midsummer’s Nights Dream.'' * Puck, the goat-footed satyr made famous in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''

Shakespeare alludes to Pegasus in "Henry IV.," where Vernon describes Prince Henry:

*'''Shakespeare''' refers four times to mandrake and twice under the name of mandragora. :: Shakespeare: Othello, Act 3 Scene III

*In William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the spirit Ariel disguises himself as a harpy to deliver t

...s (Act III, Scene v, and a portion of Act IV, Scene i) were not written by Shakespeare, but was added during a revision by Thomas Middleton, who used material fro

...season episode in which Brent and Finchy's team lost to Tim and Ricky on a Shakespeare-related tie-breaker.

...entered English as ''[[Oberon]]'' – king of elves and [[fairies]] in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (see below). ...origins was the influence from literature. In Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare imagined elves as little people. He apparently considered elves and fairies

...and subtlety. In these regards, he is similar to the character of Iago in Shakespeare's ''Othello''. (This could also be considered along the lines of an antiher

...rgues that if we were rigorous with our definitions, [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]'' would have to be termed sci

...Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds and Wichtlein, the Irish Phooka and even Shakespeare's infamous Puck .

The phoenix myth is referred to in Shakespeare's play ''The Tempest',

Carrie Brown (nicknamed "Shakespeare", reportedly for quoting Shakespeare's sonnets) was killed 24 April 1891 in New York City. She was strangled wit

...Caribs. [[Richard Hakluyt]]'s ''Voyages'' introduced the word to English. Shakespeare transposed it, anagram-fashion, to name his monster servant in ''The Tempes * William Shakespeare's ''Titus Andronicus'', in which Tamora is unknowingly served a pie made fr

...dge can tell a person how to write dramatic works comparable in quality to Shakespeare's or symphonies comparable to Beethoven's or to hit baseballs like Babe Rut

...re ''The Time of the Daleks'', the Daleks show a fondness for the works of Shakespeare. ...ion is human propaganda, and the works more commonly attributed to William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven were actually written by Daleks. After this, one o

...woodcuts, concluded that his subject mostly resembled the likes of William Shakespeare and Cesare Borgia.