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

Hamlet:

• Perchance to Dream animation by Lauren Kimball ^[1]
• 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
• The Quick and the Dead, 1995 film by Sam Raimi

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 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
• Salad Days, album by Mac DeMarco

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 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 — 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)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
• Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)

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 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 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

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)
• 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)
• "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, 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

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’ 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

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

External links

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