Although Falstaff climbs into a buck basket and has dirty linen thrown on him, there is no stage direction to put foul linen on his head.

The other stage directions are from Henry IV Part 1, The Winter's Tale, and Titus Andronicus.

Pericles was not included in the First Folio, as the editors were not certain it was authored by Shakespeare.

In the backstage world of theatre, there is a superstition amongst actors that Macbeth is cursed, and they refuse to speak its name aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish Play" or "Mac-B"

This proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play.