I won’t presume to create a “Shakespeare” tag, but I discover there’s a pleasant chain of related stories on this blog:

• The insightful programme by Philomena Cunk (now she does have her own tag…), complete with quiz on words invented by Shakespeare, or not (cuckoo? ukulele? sushi? titwank?).
• Arthur Smith’s Hamlet story
• Shakespeare bettered by D.H. Lawrence
• Peter Sellers declaiming A hard day’s night in Shakespearean style
• A fine pun
• A Shakespearean play, eruditely annotated.

and by extension—thinking of cultural gulfs:

• the music exam in prison
• and the Li family’s classic train joke.

For stimulating takes on Shakespeare’s cultural world, try the BBC TV series Upstart crow…