| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.354 | argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs | argument, vnlesse the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.534 | (aside to First Player) Dost thou hear me, old | Dost thou heare me old |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.548 | Is it not monstrous that this player here, | Is it not monstrous that this Player heere, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.150 | Enter the Fourth Player as Prologue | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.253 | Enter the Third Player, as Lucianus | Enter Lucianus. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.353.1 | Enter a Player with recorders | Enter one with a Recorder. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.24 | Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player | Life's but a walking Shadow, a poore Player, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.65 | There is not one word apt, one player fitted. | There is not one word apt, one Player fitted. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.153 | And, like a strutting player whose conceit | And like a strutting Player, whose conceit |