Shakespeare References in Deceptions

Deceptions, a novel by Judith Michael (who is actually two people, the husband-and-wife team of Judith Barnard and Michael Fain), contains a couple of Shakespeare references. Both are to Shakespeare himself rather than a specific play. The first comes fairly early in the book: "Shakespeare's troupe entertained in Treveston's Great Hall, and generations of farsighted Longsworths filled the castle with a priceless collection of Titians, Rembrandts and Gainsboroughs, rare books and prints and seventeenth-century tapestries and furniture" (p. 53). The second comes in dialogue, with Lloyd Strauss saying to Garth: "I had weeping girls in here, outraged parents, remorseful professors...more drama than Shakespeare. The guy who started it - called the president, bellowing about his little girl being corrupted - happesn to be a big contributor to the new football stadium. It would be football, wouldn't it? Can't ignore football. So the stink spread, and the president ordered me to clear it up before word got out. Word, of course, got out; the Standard, damn its industrious student hide, got the details into last week's paper before I'd even arranged my Shakespearean session" (p. 372).

Deceptions was published in 1982. The copy I read was a hardcover Book Club Edition.