List of titles of works taken from Shakespeare

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
As You like It by Natyaguru Nurul Momen (The pioneer Bangla playwright)

Hamlet:

Cue for Passion by Elmer Rice (II.ii)
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)

Julius Caesar

Dear Brutus, by J. M. Barrie (I.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 Taming of the Shrew

Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter (V.i)

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)
Perchance to Dream animation by Lauren Kimball ^[1] (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)
The Quick and the Dead, 1995 film by Sam Raimi (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 – 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 John Steinbeck's 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 Taming of the Shrew

Kiss Me Kate, 1953 film of Cole Porter's musical (V.i)

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

As You Like It

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

Hamlet

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)
"The Chameleon's Dish", a song from In Visible Silence by Art of Noise (III.ii)

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 Taming of the Shrew

Kiss Me Kate, 2009 EP by Kate Tsui (V.i)

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)
Salad Days by Theodora Benson (I.v)
An Inch of Fortune by Simon Raven (I.ii)
The Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell (IV.xv)
Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell (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 — 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?'
"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 (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)
The Herb of Grace by Elizabeth Goudge (IV.v)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
A Little Less Than Kind by Charlotte Armstrong (I.ii)
Path of Dalliance by Auberon Waugh (I.iii)
Contagion to This World by John Lodwick (III.ii)
Bid the Soldiers Shoot by John Lodwick (V.ii)
O, How the Wheel Becomes It by Anthony Powell (IV.v)
Infants of the Spring by Anthony Powell (I.iii)
Goodnight, Sweet Ladies by Shamus Frazer (IV.v)
A Pin's Fee by Peter De Polnay (I.iv)
Flush As May by P. M. Hubbard (III.iii)
Begin, Murderer by Desmond Cory (III.ii)
No Traveller Returns by John Collier (III.i)
Dreadful Summit by Stanley Ellin (I.iv)
The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine by Marion Woodman (IV.v)

Henry IV, part 1

I Know a Trick Worth Two of That by Samuel Holt (pseudonym for Donald E. Westlake) (II.i)
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 VI, part 1

Bring Forth the Body by Simon Raven (II.ii)

Henry VIII

The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin (II.i)
A Killing Frost by R. D. Wingfield (III.ii)
The Third Day, The Frost by John Marsden (III.ii)

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)
Messengers of Day by Anthony Powell (II.i)

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

The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell (III.v)
Every Inch a King by Harry Turtledove (IV.vi)
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (I.ii)
Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say) by Frederick Buechner (V.iii)
Faces in My Time by Anthony Powell (II.ii)

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)
A Rooted Sorrow by P. M. Hubbard (V.iii)
Sleep No More by George Sims (II.ii)
Come Like Shadows by Simon Raven (IV.i)
To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell (II.ii)

Measure for Measure

A Thirsty Evil by P. M. Hubbard (I.ii)
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna by Thomas Pynchon (I.i)

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
Villain with a Smiling Cheek by Paul Murray (I.iii)

Much Ado About Nothing

Kill Claudio by P. M. Hubbard (IV.i)

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)
This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young
Who Are the Violets Now? by Auberon Waugh (V.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 Strangers All Are Gone by Anthony Powell (I.v)
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (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)
Too Dear for My Possessing by Pamela Hansford Johnson (CXXXVII)

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)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (IV.i)
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)

Troilus and Cressida

Alms for Oblivion series of novels by Simon Raven (III.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, Out–" 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, 1979–81 television series (a play on "to the manner born", I.iv)
"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, 2005–10 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, 1969–75 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 1960s–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
"Something Ricked This Way Comes",Rick and Morty 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 Goon's Deed in a Weary World", 30 Rock episode
"The Quality of Mercy", Inspector Lewis 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 episode (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

"What's in a Name?", Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode (II.ii)
"By Any Other Name", Star Trek episode (II.ii)
"Such Sweet Sorrow", ER episode (II.ii)

The Sonnets

The Darling Buds of May, UK TV comedy based on H. E. Bates's novel.++ (XVIII)
A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)

The Taming of the Shrew

Kiss Me Kate, 1998–2000 BBC sitcom (V.i)

The Tempest

"Sea Change" (Transformers episode) (I.ii)

Other

Antony and Cleopatra

Salad Days, manga

Hamlet

His Picture in Little, artwork by Tacita Dean (II.ii)
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

↑ "Perchance to Dream – Short Film Central".

External links

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

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[1] "Perchance to Dream – Short Film Central".