List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases

The following is a partially complete list of titles of works based on 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 article Shakespeare on screen exists for that purpose.

Novels, short stories and nonfiction

A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)
• A Midsummer Night's Gene by Andrew Harman
• A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson, which refers also to The Tempest and other plays

Antony and Cleopatra

• Her Infinite Variety (II.ii)
• 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, a parody of "All the world's a stage" (II.vii)
• The Lie Direct by Sara Woods (V.iv)

Coriolanus

• The Exile Kiss (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)
• How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar (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" (III.i)
• What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson (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)
• All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman (III.i)
• Single Spies by Alan Bennett (IV.V)
• Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)

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)

Heart of Gold and Summers Night of thy shall wait molenen tike

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 Buffy novel, and others++ (III.ii)
• There is a Tide by Agatha Christie (also known as Taken at the Flood) (IV.iii)

King John

• Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (III.iv)

King Lear

• 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

• All My Yesterdays, by Cecil Lewis++ (V.v)
• Brief Candles by Aldous Huxley (V.v)
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (IV.i)
• A Charm of Powerful Trouble by Joanne Horniman (IV.i)
• Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (II.i)
• Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr
• A Heart So White by Javier Marías (II.ii)
• Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles (III.iii)
• Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh (III.ii)
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (II.i)
• The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham (I.iii)
• Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (IV.i)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (V.v)
• Taste of Fears by Margaret Millar
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (V.v)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean (V.v)
• Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas (II:ii)
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (I.iii, etc.)
• Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov

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)

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 Stanisław 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)

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)

The Tempest

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
• Brave New Girl by Louisa Luna (the title is a play on the above)
• Something Rich and Strange by Patricia A. McKillip (I.ii)
• Sea Change by Richard Armstrong (I.ii)
• Sea Change by Robert B. Parker
• Sea Change by James Powlik
• This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (V.i)
• Miranda by Antoni Lange (after the character)

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)

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)

Hamlet:

• 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)

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)

Poetry

Hamlet

• "Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)

King Lear

• "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", Robert Browning

Macbeth

• "Out, Out–" by Robert Frost (V.i)

The Tempest

• "Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
• "Pearls That Were" by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)

Radio

Hamlet

• The Mortal Coil (An Adventures in Odyssey two-part episode) (III.i)

Film/Television

Antony and Cleopatra

• Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" (episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus)

As You Like It:

• Under the Greenwood Tree, 1918 film (II.v)
• Under the Greenwood Tree, 1929 film
• "All the World's a Stage" (Ugly Betty) (II.vii)
• All the World's a Stooge

Hamlet

• "Thine Own Self", Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.iii)
• To the Manor Born by Peter Spence, (a parody of "To the manner born", I.iv)
• "Remember Me", Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.v)^{[citation needed]}
• Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 20th Century Fox film version of Williams novel with Gene Tierney (I.v)
• North by Northwest, 1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock (II.ii)
• "The Conscience of the King", Star Trek episode (II.ii)
• "The Paragon of Animals", Babylon 5 episode (II.ii)
• To Be or Not to Be, 1942 film (remade in 1983 by Mel Brooks). (III.i)
• What Dreams May Come, 1998 film version of Matheson novel. (III.i)
• Slings & Arrows, 2003 Showcase Original Series. (III.i)
• Outrageous Fortune, film written by Leslie Dixon (III.i)
• Outrageous Fortune, 2005-2010 television series (III.i)
• "Mortal Coil" (Star Trek: Voyager episode) (III.i)
• The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek film (III.i)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990 film version of Stoppard play. (V.ii)
• "Murder Most Foul", 1964 murder mystery with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
• Less Than Kind, 2008 television series
• "Perchance to Dean", episode of The Venture Bros. (based on "perchance to dream", III.i)
• "Perchance to Dream" (The Twilight Zone)

Henry IV, part 2

• Chimes at Midnight, 1965 film by Orson Welles (III.ii)

Henry V

• "Once More Unto the Breach", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
• Band of Brothers, miniseries based on book (IV.iii)

Julius Caesar

• "Not to Praise Him", The Bill
• Cry 'Havoc', 1943 MGM film with Margaret Sullavan (III.i)
• "The Dogs of War", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
• "The Dogs of War", The West Wing Season 5 episode (III.i)
• 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)

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 1960s - 1970s (V.v)
• "The Birnam Wood", The West Wing Episode Season 6 (IV.i etc.)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1983 film (IV.i)
• "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 Sound and the Fury, 1959 film (V.v)

The Merchant of Venice

• "The Quality of Mercy", Babylon 5 episode (IV.i)

A Midsummer Night's Dream:

• Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
• "Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (II.i)

Othello

• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (derivative of "the beast with two backs", II.i)
• "Journey's End" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (V.ii)

Richard II

• The Demi-Paradise, 1943 film with Laurence Olivier

Richard III

• My Kingdom for a Horse, 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean (V.iv)
• The Winter of Our Discontent, 1983 TV movie of Steinbeck novel. (I.i)
• Where Eagles Dare, 1967 film (I.iii)

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 HE Bates’ novel.++ (XVIII)
• Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1971 film of later play (XXIX)
• A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)

The Tempest

• Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock (I.ii)
• "Sea Change" (Transformers episode) (I.ii)

The Winter's Tale:

• Fresh Horses, 1988 film by David Anspaugh

Other

Antony and Cleopatra

• Salad Days (album by Adrian Belew)
• Salad Days (EP by Minor Threat)
• Salad Days (manga)

As You Like It

• As You Like It (Friedrich Gulda album)
• The album All the World's a Stage by Rush (II.vii)

Hamlet

• Infinite Jest (album by We Are The Fury) (V.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

• The Dogs of War (song by Pink Floyd) (III.i)
• Dogs of War (album by Saxon) (III.i)
• Dogs of War (comic book series) (III.i)
• Dogs of War: Battle on Primus IV (computer game) (III.i)

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 Bitchin' This Way Comes (album by Lock Up)
• Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes (album by SNFU)
• Something Wicked (album by Nuclear Assault)

Othello

• The Beast with Two Backs, 2003 album by Inkubus Sukkubus (I.i)
• Pomp and Circumstance Marches by Edward Elgar++ (III.iii)

Richard III

• Where Eagles Dare (song) (I.iii)
• Now Is The Winter Of Our Discothèque, 2005 album by Princess Superstar (parody of "Now is the winter of our discontent...", I.i)

The Sonnets

• ...Nothing Like the Sun (album by Sting) (CXXX)

The Tempest

• Full Fathom Five (painting by Jackson Pollock) (I.ii)
• Full Fathom Five (album by Clutch (I.ii)
• Sea Change (album by Beck) (I.ii)
• Come Unto These Yellow Sands (painting by Richard Dadd) (I.ii)

External links

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