Shakespeare References in 100 Monologues

The book 100 Monologues: An Audition Sourcebook From New Dramatists, edited by Laura Harrington, contains a few Shakespeare references. The first is to Hamlet, and it comes in a monologue from Nightcoil by Jeffrey M. Jones. In fact, nearly the entire monologue is an attempt to recall Hamlet's most famous soliloquy. "To be, or something-or-other" (p. 141), and continues from there. (See photos below.)

There is a brief description of the character before each monologue, and in the description before the monologue from Dick D. Zigun's Red Letter Days, two of Shakespeare's characters are referred to: "This is a monologue for a man or woman playing a pagan spirit like Ariel or Puck with an ethical standard deviant from those held by warm-blooded humans" (p. 237). Ariel is a character from The Tempest, while Puck comes from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Then at the end of the book there is a list of playwrights with a bit of information on each. Among the plays listened under John Guare's name is Two Gentlemen Of Verona (p. 247),  which is a rock musical based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. I hope I can see a performance of that one at some point. And the list of plays under Allan Rieser's name includes one titled The Merry Wives of Scarsdale (p. 252), its title obviously a play on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives Of Windsor.

This book was published in 1989.