- Executive Meddling: If an urban legend is true, literally—and in the cause of shipping, to boot: The existence of the (most likely untrue) urban legend that Queen Elizabeth ordered Shakespeare to write a play where her favorite character Falstaff falls in love does at least show that fans meddling in fictional characters' love lives was not a foreign concept in the 16th century.
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