In her follow-up to the "The Tortured Poets Department," Taylor Swift is continuing to delight her bookish fans with literary references on her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl."

The 35-year-old Grammy winner famously crammed tons of literary references into the lyrics and song titles of her previous studio album. Her earlier songs, too, feature allusions to "The Great Gatsby," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken" and more.

Even before the album's official release on Oct. 3, fans have surmised that in "The Life of a Showgirl," Swift circles back to one of her earlier inspirations, English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, whose characters Romeo and Juliet appear in her 2008 hit “Love Story."

This time around, Swift name-drops

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