What Shakespeare did with Henry the Fourth or the equivalent (5)
I believe the answer is:
wrote
'equivalent' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives sometimes mean the same thing.
'what shakespeare did with henry the fourth or the' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'with' could be 'w' (abbreviation) and 'w' is found in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'roe' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wrote that I've seen before include "Penned" , "Inscribed" , "Put to paper" , "Composed (music)" .)