Middle-earth was created by British writer J. R. R. Tolkien.
 Hamlet hives the co-operation of the actors to set up the play as a thing "wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"
 Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet that takes two of Shakespeare's most minor characters and creates a new play in which they are the protagonists

