Most of the names and some of the plot points are similar to those found in As You Like It.
Title is from As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 1, in which Duke Senior says: "Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court?"
About midway, in the Shakespeare & Hathaway office after Orlan is admitted to hospital, Sebstian remarks "and by any other name would smell as sweet" which is from Romeo & Juliet.