Certain stories. Shakespeare got his stories for his history plays, the Scottish history play Macbeth, and the two plays set in legendary Britain, King Lear and Cymbeline, at least partly from Holinshed's Chronicles. There is therefore a lot of narrative in common.
There is no evidence they had anything in common.
what did shakepeare and handel have in common
Shakespeare invented nearly 1,700 common English words.
violence and death.
William Shakespeare's wife had the same name as the famous actress Anne Hathaway.
History
The lead singer of Coldplay, Chris Martin, is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, who starred in "Shakespeare in Love."
The black verse that Shakespeare employed is the most similar to English speech, and Shakespeare also wrote many passages in common prose, especially with common or comic characters. The Elizabethans did use the words, phrases, and sentence structures that Shakespeare presents, and even though Elizabethans went in for puns and wordplay, Shakespeare's dialogue does enhance and embellish this tendency.
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They all have to do with English kings.
They were both men and they were both from Europe.
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