You've heard of the search for the "missing link," but Shakespeare's Tempest washed it up in the form of Caliban.

"Beauties of Shakespeare."  From The Comic Offering, Or, Ladies' Melange of Literary Mirth, 1832.

"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster."  From The Sketch, 1904.

"I want more uncles," by Frank Reynolds for The Sketch, 1903.

"Adieu, Hamlet, remember me."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1875.

A man with a beard in a dress and his donkey-headed companion are sleeping on dynamite as fairies look on.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.

"Interviews Shakespeare through the crystal to get first-hand information for English 41."  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1921.

"Thou lov'st me not with the full weight that I love thee" (As You Like It).  By Phil May for The Sketch, 1902.

Cavendish Morton's tranformation into Falstaff.  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

Here's Caliban from The Sketch, 1905.

There are those who would have you believe Shakespeare isn't all that puzzling.  No Cipher in Shakespeare by Aldwell Nicholson, 1888.

"I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times.  [The Taming of the Shrew.]"  From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1931.