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Oh, I apologise. My point was more about not conflating literary (and cinematic) works which are totally unrelated and developed in widely different geographical contexts into one single bunch than being rude. Of course in the Onceverse they would all happen in the same place just as the fairytales happen pretty much all around the same forests, but out of the screen one work is unrelated and unbound to the others. As Eskaver pointed out, it's not like if Disney did it, OUAT must too.

The funny thing, meanwhile, is that there have been some nods at Shakespeare (see 2x01). Were they easter eggs, or forwshadowing of what might come, much like the Oz pictures in the Pilot?