This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It has been over four centuries since William Shakespeare died, but his works still pervade everything in pop culture. New adaptations of his plays are filmed and staged all the time. Words he created are a part of the everyday English lexicon, like “inaudible,” “swagger,” and “advertising.” (According to Mental Floss, he was also the first to use “eyeball” to mean the entire orb.) And, oh, the retellings! Shakespeare is credited with writing at least 35 plays, but the number of times his work has been refashioned into a new play or show or book must be in the thousands by now. To name a few, there’s Ten Things I Hate About You, The Lion King, She’s the Man, Brave New World, A Thousand Acres, West Side Story, and my personal favorites, Scotland, PA and The Plague Dogs. So it stands to reason that since Shakespeare is so widely represented in our world, his influence would also bleed …