http://sparknotes.com/home/shakespeare/article/william_shakespeare_was_tinkerbells_dad.html Or so begins the article, followed up in the first line by a “No, not really.” (Bait and switch, much?) It then goes on to give a history of fairies (“faeries”) at the time of Shakespeare, and how he didn’t even invent them, he just gave us some of our modern ideas about how they behave. Hmmm….sounds familiar somehow….. http://blog.shakespearegeek.com/2008/07/scary-fairies.html