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The following is a partially complete list of titles of works taken from Shakespearean phrases. It is organized by type of work. Some titles appear in multiple categories and are marked with ++. Note that this is not the place to list film or television adaptations of Shakespeare's plays; the List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations exists for that purpose.

Drama



Antony and Cleopatra
  • Salad Days, musical by Julian Slade
As You Like It
  • All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare by John Reed (novelist)
  • As You like It by Natyaguru Nurul Momen (The pioneer Bangla playwright)
Hamlet:
  • Perchance to Dream animation by Lauren Kimball
  • Perchance to Dream musical by Ivor Novello (III.i)
  • The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie (III.ii)
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (V.ii)
  • Cue for Passion by Elmer Rice (II.ii)
Much Ado About Nothing
  • Sigh No More, musical revue by Noël Coward and others (II.iii)
Othello
  • Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff (V.ii) (also occurs in Twelfth Night (II.iii))
  • Passing Strange, musical by Stew (I.iii)
The Sonnets
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes (two different plays) (XXIX)
The Tempest
  • The Isle Is Full of Noises by Derek Walcott (III.ii)
Twelfth Night
  • Present Laughter by Noël Coward (II.iii)
  • Improbable Fiction by Alan Ayckbourn (II.iii)

Film



As You Like It:
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1918 film (II.v)
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1929 film
  • All the World's a Stooge, 1941 short by The Three Stooges (play on “All the world’s a stage...”, II.vii)
Hamlet
  • Murder Most Foul, 1964 film with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (I.v)
  • Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 20th Century Fox adaptation of Williams novel with Gene Tierney (I.v)
  • North by Northwest, 1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock (II.ii)
  • To Be or Not to Be, 1942 film (remade in 1983 by Mel Brooks). (III.i)
  • Outrageous Fortune, 1987 film written by Leslie Dixon (III.i)
  • What Dreams May Come, 1998 adaptation of Matheson novel (III.i)
  • The Undiscovered Country, 1991 Star Trek film (III.i)
  • Alas! Poor Yorick!, 1913 film starring Fatty Arbuckle (V.i)
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990 adaptation of Stoppard play (V.ii)
  • The Rest Is Silence, 1959 film (V.ii)
  • The Rest Is Silence, 2007 film
Henry IV, Part 2
  • Chimes at Midnight, 1965 film by Orson Welles (III.ii)
Julius Caesar
  • Cry 'Havoc', 1943 MGM film with Margaret Sullavan (III.i)
  • The Dogs of War, 1980 film (III.iii)
  • The Evil That Men Do (film) (III.ii)
  • The Serpent's Egg (film)++ (II.i)
  • The Ides of March (film)
King John
  • Twice-Told Tales, 1963 film (III.iv)
Macbeth
  • Mortal Thoughts, 1991 film (I.v)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1983 film (IV.i)
  • The Sound and the Fury, 1959 film (V.v)
The Merchant of Venice
  • The Quality of Mercy (Hasenjagd â€" Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen), 1994 Austrian film
  • The Quality of Mercy 2002 film, starring Mary-Louise Parker
A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
  • Ill Met by Moonlight, 1994 film by S. P. Somtow (II.i)
Richard II
  • The Demi-Paradise, 1943 film with Laurence Olivier (II.i)
Richard III
  • The Winter of Our Discontent, 1983 TV movie of Steinbeck novel. (I.i)
  • Where Eagles Dare, 1967 film (I.iii)
The Sonnets
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1971 adaptation of John Herbert's play (XXIX)
The Tempest
  • Full Fathom Five, 1990 film (I.ii)
  • Rough Magic, 1995 film with Russell Crowe and Bridget Fonda
  • Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock (I.ii)
Troilus and Cressida
  • Good Riddance, 1979 film (II.i)
The Winter's Tale:
  • Fresh Horses, 1988 film by David Anspaugh
Other
  • The Passionate Pilgrim,1984 film with Eric Morecambe (from The Passionate Pilgrim, the title of a 16th-century anthology attributed to Shakespeare)

Music



Anthony and Cleopatra
  • Salad Days, album by Adrian Belew
  • Salad Days, EP by Minor Threat
As You Like It
  • As You Like It, album by Friedrich Gulda
  • All the World's a Stage, album by Rush (II.vii)
Hamlet
  • What a Piece of Work Is Man, song in the musical Hair (II.ii)
  • Infinite Jest, album by We Are The Fury (V.i)
  • The Rest Is Silence, 1996 album by Randy (V.ii)
  • This Mortal Coil, a project led by Ivo Watts-Russell (III.i)
Henry V
  • Band of Brothers, 2009 album by Only Men Aloud! (IV.iii)
  • Band of Brothers, 2012 album by Hellyeah (IV.iii)
Julius Caesar
  • "The Dogs of War", song by Pink Floyd (III.i)
  • Dogs of War, album by Saxon (III.i)
  • "Beware the Ides of March", song by Colosseum
Macbeth
  • The Moon is Down, album by Further Seems Forever (II.i)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes, album by Iced Earth (IV.i)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes, album by The Herbaliser
  • "Something Wicked (This Way Comes)", a song by Siouxsie & the Banshees from the B-side of The Killing Jar
  • Something Bitchin' This Way Comes, album by Lock Up
  • Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes, album by SNFU
  • "Something Wicked", song by 2Pac from album 2pacalypse Now.
  • Something Wicked, album by Nuclear Assault
The Merchant of Venice
  • The Quality of Mercy, album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
  • "The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen" album by The Mekons.
  • "Quality of Mercy", song by Michelle Shocked.
Much Ado About Nothing
  • Sigh No More, album by Dog Age (II.iii)
  • Sigh No More, album by Gamma Ray
  • Sigh No More, album by Mumford and Sons
Othello
  • The Beast with Two Backs, album by Inkubus Sukkubus (I.i)
  • Pomp and Circumstance Marches by Edward Elgar++ (III.iii)
Richard III
  • Now Is The Winter Of Our Discothèque, album by Princess Superstar (parody of "Now is the winter of our discontent...", I.i)
  • Where Eagles Dare, song by Iron Maiden (I.iii)
Romeo and Juliet
  • A Rose by Any Other Name, 1975 album by Ronnie Milsap (II.ii)
The Sonnets
  • ...Nothing Like the Sun, album by Sting (CXXX)
The Tempest
  • Full Fathom Five, album by Clutch (I.ii)
  • Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here, album by Anaal Nathrakh (I.ii)
  • Sea Change, album by Beck (I.ii)
Troilus and Cressida
  • "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", song by Green Day (II.i)

Novels, short stories and nonfiction



A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • A Midsummer Night's Gene by Andrew Harman (title)
  • Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)
  • Zettels Traum ("Bottom's Dream") by Arno Schmidt (IV,i)
Antony and Cleopatra
  • Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss (II.ii)
  • Music Ho! by Constant Lambert (II.v)
  • Beds in the East by Anthony Burgess (II.vi)
  • Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers (III.xiii)
As You Like It
  • Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (II.v)
  • And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish (from "All the world's a stage", II.vii)
  • The Lie Direct by Sara Woods (V.iv)
Coriolanus
  • The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger (from "O! a kiss / Long as my exile", V:iii)
Hamlet
  • Too, Too Solid Flesh by Nick O'Donohoe (I.ii)
  • This Above All by Eric Knight (I.iii)
  • Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (I.iv)
  • The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton; Edmund Crispin (I.iv)
  • There are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges (I.v)
  • More Things in Heaven by John Brunner (I.v)
  • And Be a Villain by Rex Stout (I.v)
  • The Celestial Bed by Irving Wallace (I.v)
  • Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick (I.v)
  • Murder Most Foul used by several different mystery writers (I.v)
  • Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams (I.v)
  • Method â€" Or Madness? by Robert Lewis (II.ii)
  • How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar (II.ii)
  • How Like a God by Brenda Clough (II.ii)
  • Her Privates We by Frederic Manning (II.ii); also published as The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916, referring to the same section of II.ii: 'On fortune's cap we are not the very button ...Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?' [1]
  • "2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut (III.i)
  • What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson (III.i)
  • This Mortal Coil by Cynthia Asquith (III.i)
  • Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley and Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang (III.i)
  • Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker, Howard Weinstein (Star Trek: The Next Generation novel) and Perforce to Dream by John Wyndham [2] (III.i)
  • With a bare bodkin by Cyril Hare (III.i)
  • The Name of Action by Graham Greene (III.i)
  • All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman (III.i)
  • Single Spies by Alan Bennett (IV.v)
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
  • Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
Henry IV, part 1
  • Tarry and Be Hanged by Sara Woods (I.ii)
  • Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley (V.iv)
Henry V
  • So Vile a Sin by Ben Aaronovitch & Kate Orman (II.iv)
  • Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (IV.iii)
Henry VIII
  • The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin (II.i)
Julius Caesar
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (from "The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars", I.ii)
  • This Little Measure by Sara Woods (III.i)
  • The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth (III.i)
  • The Evil that Men Do by Nancy Holder++ (III.ii)
  • There is a Tide by Agatha Christie (also known as Taken at the Flood) (IV.iii)
  • On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee (IV.iii)
King John
  • Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (III.iv)
  • England Have My Bones by T.H. White (from "Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones", IV.iii)
King Lear
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
  • The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell (III.v)
  • Every Inch a King by Harry Turtledove (IV.vi)
  • Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say) by Frederick Buechner (V.iii)
Macbeth
  • Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (I.iii, etc.)
  • The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham (I.iii)
  • Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (II.i)
  • The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (II.i)
  • Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas (II:ii)
  • A Heart So White by Javier Marías (II.ii)
  • Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh (III.ii)
  • Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles (III.iii)
  • Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr (IV.i)
  • Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble by H. P. Mallory (IV.i)
  • A Charm of Powerful Trouble by Joanne Horniman (IV.i)
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (IV.i)
  • Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (IV.i)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield (V.v)
  • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut (V.v)
  • All My Yesterdays by Cecil Lewis++ (from "all our yesterdays", V.v)
  • Brief Candles by Aldous Huxley (from "Out, out, brief candle!", V.v)
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (from "it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.", V.v)
  • Taste of Fears by Margaret Millar (V.v)
  • The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean (V.v)
  • Tutti i nostri ieri (All Our Yesterdays) or A Light for Fools (American title) by Natalia Ginzburg (V.v)
The Merchant of Venice
  • The Quality of Mercy autobiography of Mercedes McCambridge, and others (IV.i)
  • "A Pound of Flesh" by Thane Rosenbaum (chapter from Rosenbaum's book The Myth of Moral Justice)
  • The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
Othello
  • Passing Strange by Catherine Aird (I.iii)
  • Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes (II.i)
  • Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (III.iii)
  • Mortal Engines by StanisÅ‚aw Lem (III.iii)
  • Pomp and Circumstance by Noël Coward++ (III.iii)
  • Richer Than All His Tribe by Nicholas Monsarrat (V.ii)
Richard II
  • Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (III.ii)
  • This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young
Richard III
  • The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (I.i)
  • Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías (V:iii)
Romeo and Juliet
  • What's in a Name? by Isaac Asimov (II.ii)
  • Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (II.ii)
The Sonnets
  • The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates++ (XVIII)
  • Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge (CVI)
  • The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford (LX)
  • Summer's Lease by John Mortimer (XVIII)
  • Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (only in English translation) (XXX)
  • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (LXXIII)
  • Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie (XCVIII)
  • Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess (CXXX)
  • No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell (CXXXXVI)
The Tempest
  • Sea Change by Richard Armstrong (I.ii)
  • Sea Change by Robert B. Parker
  • Sea Change by James Powlik
  • Something Rich and Strange by Patricia A. McKillip (I.ii)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
  • This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (V.i)
  • Every Third Thought by John Barth (V.i)
Timon of Athens
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (IV.iii)
Twelfth Night
  • Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham (II.iii)
  • Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (II.iii)
  • To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King (III.i)

Poetry



Hamlet
  • "Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)
Julius Caesar
  • "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot (IV.ii)
King Lear
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
Macbeth
  • "Out, Outâ€"" by Robert Frost (V.i)
The Tempest
  • "Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
  • "Full Fathom Five" by Samuel Menashe (I.ii)
  • "Pearls That Were" by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)

Television



Antony and Cleopatra
  • Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days", episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus
As You Like It
  • "All the World's a Stage", Ugly Betty episode (II.vii)
Hamlet
  • Less Than Kind, 2008 television series (I.ii)
  • "Thine Own Self", 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.iii)
  • To the Manor Born, 1979â€"81 television series (a play on "to the manner born", I.iv)
  • "Remember Me", 1990 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.v)
  • "The Conscience of the King", 1966 Star Trek episode (II.ii)
  • "The Paragon of Animals", 1998 Babylon 5 episode (II.ii)
  • "Perchance to Dream", 1959 The Twilight Zone episode (III.i)
  • "Perchance to Dean", 2009 The Venture Bros. episode
  • Slings & Arrows, 2003 Showcase Original Series. (III.i)
  • Outrageous Fortune, 2005â€"10 television series (III.i)
  • "Mortal Coil", 1997 Star Trek: Voyager episode (III.i)
Henry V
  • "Once More Unto the Breach", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
  • Band of Brothers, miniseries based on book (IV.iii)
Henry VI, Part 2
  • The Main Chance, 1969â€"75 television series (I.i)
Julius Caesar
  • "Not to Praise Him", The Bill
  • "The Dogs of War", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
  • "The Dogs of War", The West Wing Season 5 episode (III.i)
King Lear
  • "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", Star Trek animated episode (I.iv)
Macbeth
  • "Dagger of the Mind", Star Trek episode (II.i)
  • "All Our Yesterdays", Star Trek episode ++ (V.v)
  • All Our Yesterdays, UK Television historical news programme of the 1960sâ€"70s (V.v)
  • "The Birnam Wood", The West Wing Episode Season 6 (IV.i etc.)
  • "Something Wicked This Way Comes", Ugly Betty episode
  • "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", South Park episode
  • "Something Wicca This Way Comes", Charmed episode
  • "Something Wicked", Supernatural episode
The Merchant of Venice
  • "The Quality of Mercy", Babylon 5 episode (IV.i)
  • "Quality of Mercy", The Outer Limits (I.xiv)
  • A Quality of Mercy, The Twilight Zone episode (III.xv)
  • "The Quality of Mercy", Early Edition episode
A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • "Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (II.i)
Othello
  • Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (from "The Beast with Two Backs", II.i)
  • A Beast With Two Backs, 1968 television play by Dennis Potter
  • "Journey's End" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (V.ii)
  • "Journey's End", 2008 Doctor Who episode
Richard II
  • The Hollow Crown, 2012 television adaptation of the Henriad (III.ii)
Richard III
  • My Kingdom for a Horse, 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean (V.iv)
Romeo and Juliet
  • "By Any Other Name" (Star Trek episode) (II.ii)
  • What's in a Name? (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) (II.ii)
The Sonnets
  • The Darling Buds of May, UK TV comedy based on H. E. Bates’ novel.++ (XVIII)
  • A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)
The Tempest
  • "Sea Change" (Transformers episode) (I.ii)

Other



Antony and Cleopatra
  • Salad Days (manga)
Hamlet
  • The Mortal Coil, an Adventures in Odyssey two-part radio episode (III.i)
  • The King of Shreds and Patches (Interactive Fiction by Jimmy Maher inspired by H.P. Lovecraft) (III.iv)
Henry V
  • Household Words (magazine) (IV.iii)
Julius Caesar
  • Dogs of War (comic book series) (III.i)
  • Dogs of War: Battle on Primus IV (computer game) (III.i)
The Merchant of Venice
  • A Pound of Flesh for 50p, 2014 artwork by Alex Chinneck (a play on "pound of flesh", III.iii et passim)
The Tempest
  • Full Fathom Five (painting by Jackson Pollock) (I.ii)
  • Doctor Who Unbound: Full Fathom Five, 2003 Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio story (I.ii)
  • Come Unto These Yellow Sands (painting by Richard Dadd) (I.ii)

References



External links



  • A more comprehensive list of book and play titles which are Shakespearean quotations


 
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