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→‎Ideas attributed to or made famous by Shakespeare: "Gilded Age" - adapted from King John (1595) (“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”)
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*“hoist with his own petard” - Act III, Scene IV of [[Hamlet]]
 
*“hoist with his own petard” - Act III, Scene IV of [[Hamlet]]
 
*"politics makes for strange bedfellows" - adapted from [[The Tempest]] (“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows")<ref>Charles Dudley Warner, a 19th century writer and friend of [[Mark Twain]], is credited with the adaptation of the quote to its modern political sense. [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charles_dudley_warner_379741]</ref>
 
*"politics makes for strange bedfellows" - adapted from [[The Tempest]] (“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows")<ref>Charles Dudley Warner, a 19th century writer and friend of [[Mark Twain]], is credited with the adaptation of the quote to its modern political sense. [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charles_dudley_warner_379741]</ref>
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*"[[Gilded Age]]" - adapted from [[King John]] (1595) (“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”)
    
Many of the story lines for Shakespeare's works were based on prior works.  But three of Shakespeare's plays were completely original in their plots: "Love's Labour's Lost," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The Tempest."
 
Many of the story lines for Shakespeare's works were based on prior works.  But three of Shakespeare's plays were completely original in their plots: "Love's Labour's Lost," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The Tempest."
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