List of works titled after Shakespeare
The following is a list of titles of works taken from Shakespearean phrases. 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.
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
From the title:
See As You Like It (disambiguation)
From "Under the greenwood tree" (II.v):
From the "All the world's a stage " monologue (II.vii):
All the World's a Stage , 1976 album by Rush
"All the World's a Stage ", 2010 Ugly Betty episode
All the World's a Stooge , 1941 short by The Three Stooges
"... And All the Stars a Stage", 1960 short story by James Blish
All the World's a Grave , 2008 play by John Reed
The Seven Ages , 1986 novel by Eva Figes
Morning Face , 1968 novel by Mulk Raj Anand
Unwillingly to School , 1942 novel by Nora Mylrea
Unwillingly to School , 1958 novella by Pauline Ashwell
Sans Everything , 1967 non-fiction book by Barbara Robb
Most Loving Mere Folly , 1953 novel by Edith Pargeter (Ii.vii)
The Lie Direct , 1983 novel by Sara Woods (V.iv)
Coriolanus
From "O! a kiss / Long as my exile" (V.iii):
Hamlet
A Little Less Than Kind by Charlotte Armstrong (I.ii)
Less Than Kind , 2008 television series (I.ii)
Too, Too Solid Flesh by Nick O'Donohoe (I.ii)
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens (I.ii)
Infants of the Spring by Anthony Powell (I.iii)
Path of Dalliance by Auberon Waugh (I.iii)
This Above All by Eric Knight (I.iii)
"Thine Own Self ", 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.iii)
From "to the manner born" (I.iv):
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton (I.iv)
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin (I.iv)
A Pin's Fee by Peter de Polnay (I.iv)
Dreadful Summit by Stanley Ellin (I.iv)
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (I.iv)
From "Murder most foul" (I.v):
See Murder Most Foul (disambiguation)
The Celestial Bed by Irving Wallace (I.v)
From "Leave her to heaven" (I.v):
And Be a Villain by Rex Stout (I.v)
From "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (I.v)
From "The time is out of joint" (I.v):
From "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" (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]
From "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space" (II.ii):
How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar (II.ii)
How Like a God by Brenda Clough (II.ii)
"The Paragon of Animals ", 1998 Babylon 5 episode (II.ii)
His Picture in Little , artwork by Tacita Dean (II.ii)
Said to be from "I am but mad north-northwest" (II.ii):[ 1]
Cue for Passion , play by Elmer Rice (II.ii)
"The Conscience of the King ", 1966 Star Trek episode (II.ii)
From the "To be, or not to be " soliloquy (III.i):
See To Be or Not to Be (disambiguation)
See Perchance to Dream (disambiguation)
See What Dreams May Come (disambiguation)
See Mortal coil (disambiguation)
From "I was the more deceived" (III.i):
"The Chameleon's Dish", a song from In Visible Silence by Art of Noise (III.ii)
The Mousetrap , 1952 play by Agatha Christie (III.ii)
Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr (III.ii)
Begin, Murderer by Desmond Cory (III.ii)
"Very Like A Whale", poem by Ogden Nash (III.ii)
Contagion to This World by John Lodwick (III.ii)
Flush As May by P. M. Hubbard (III.iii)
The King of Shreds and Patches , an interactive fiction by Jimmy Maher inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (from "A king of shreds and patches", III.iv)
From "I must be cruel only to be kind" (III.iv):
"Cruel to Be Kind ", 1979 song by Nick Lowe
"Cruel to Be Kind ", 1995 song by Spacehog
The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine by Marion Woodman (IV.v)
Goodnight, Sweet Ladies by Shamus Frazer (IV.v)
Single Spies by Alan Bennett (IV.v)
O, How the Wheel Becomes It by Anthony Powell (IV.v)
The Herb of Grace by Elizabeth Goudge (IV.v)
No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer (IV.vii)
First Gravedigger by Barbara Paul (V.i)
From "Alas, poor Yorick!" (V.i):
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
Infinite Jest , album by We Are The Fury (V.i)
The Quick and the Dead , 1995 film by Sam Raimi (V.i)
From "the rest is silence" (V.ii):
See The Rest Is Silence (disambiguation)
From "Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead" (V.ii):
Put on By Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
Bid the Soldiers Shoot by John Lodwick (V.ii)
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
"Beware the Ides of March", song by Colosseum (I.ii)
See also Ides of March (disambiguation)
From "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves" (I.ii):
From "think him as a serpent's egg, / Which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous" (II.i):
See The Serpent's Egg (disambiguation)
Messengers of Day , 1978 memoir by Anthony Powell (II.i)
This Little Measure , 1964 novel by Sara Woods (III.i)
From "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" (III.i; "cry havoc" also appears in Coriolanus , III.i, and King John , II.i):
See Cry havoc (disambiguation) and The Dogs of War (disambiguation)
From the speech "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears " (III.ii):
See also Lend Me Your Ears (disambiguation)
See also The Evil That Men Do (disambiguation)
"The Hollow Men ", 1925 poem by T. S. Eliot (IV.ii)
"There is a Tide ", 1968 short story by Larry Niven (IV.iii)
Taken at the Flood , 1948 novel by Agatha Christie (IV.iii; also known as There is a Tide , from the same passage)
On Such a Full Sea , 2014 novel by Chang-Rae Lee (IV.iii)
King John
King Lear
Macbeth
The Battle Lost and Won , 1978 novel by Olivia Manning (I.i)
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (I.iii, etc.)
The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham (I.iii)
Mortal Thoughts , 1991 film (I.v)
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck (II.i)
The Moon is Down , album by Further Seems Forever (II.i)
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (II.i)
Dagger of the Mind by Bob Shaw (II.i)
Hear not my Steps by L. T. C. Rolt (II.i)
From "Sleep no more'" (II.ii):
See Sleep No More (disambiguation)
From "'tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil." (II.ii):
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas (II.ii)
A Heart So White by Javier Marías (II.ii)
Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham (II.iii)
Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh (III.ii)
Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles (III.iii)
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce (III.iv)
From "Double, double, toil and trouble" (IV.i)
See Double-double (disambiguation) § Literature and media
Toil and Trouble , volume 2 title of the comic book series X-Men Blue
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)
From "Something wicked this way comes" (IV.i):
See Something Wicked (disambiguation) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (disambiguation)
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (IV.i)
From "until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come" (IV.i, with variations thereafter)
Come Like Shadows by Simon Raven (IV.i)
In Spite of Thunder by John Dickson Carr (IV.i)
The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire (IV.iii)
A Rooted Sorrow by P. M. Hubbard (V.iii)
Taste of Fears by Margaret Millar (V.v)
From the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow " soliloquy (V.v; including "all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death", "Out, out, brief candle!", "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage" and "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"):
See Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow § Titular reuses
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Sonnets
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale
Other
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