List of works titled after Shakespeare

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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. 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
As You Like It
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 and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (V.ii)
Julius Caesar
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Sonnets
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
  • The Isle Is Full of Noises by Derek Walcott (III.ii)
Twelfth Night

Film[]

As You Like It
Hamlet
  • Murder Most Foul, 1964 film with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (I.v)
  • Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 film of Ben Ames Williams's novel (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 Richard Matheson's 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 and 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
  • The Ides of March, 2011 film (I.ii)
  • The Serpent's Egg, 1977 film by Ingmar Bergman (II.i)
  • Cry 'Havoc', 1943 MGM film with Margaret Sullavan (III.i)
  • The Evil That Men Do, 1984 film of R. Lance Hill's novel (III.ii)
  • The Dogs of War, 1980 film of Frederick Forsyth's novel (III.i)
King John
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
  • The Quality of Mercy (Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen), 1994 Austrian film (IV.i)
  • 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
Richard II
Richard III
  • The Winter of Our Discontent, 1983 TV movie of John Steinbeck's novel (I.i)
  • Where Eagles Dare, 1967 film of Alistair MacLean's novel (I.iii)
The Sonnets
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
  • Full Fathom Five, 1990 film (I.ii)
  • Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock (I.ii)
  • Rough Magic, 1995 film with Russell Crowe and Bridget Fonda (V.i)
Timon of Athens
Troilus and Cressida
The Winter's Tale:
Other
  • The Passionate Pilgrim, 1984 film with Eric Morecambe (from The Passionate Pilgrim, the title of a 16th-century anthology attributed to Shakespeare)

Music[]

Antony and Cleopatra
  • Salad Days, album by Adrian Belew (I.v)
  • Salad Days, EP by Minor Threat
  • Salad Days, album by Mac DeMarco
As You Like It
Hamlet
  • 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)
  • Infinite Jest, album by We Are The Fury (V.i)
  • The Rest Is Silence, 1996 album by Randy (V.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
  • "Beware the Ides of March", song by Colosseum (I.ii)
  • "The Dogs of War", 1987 song by Pink Floyd (III.i)
  • Dogs of War, 1995 album by Saxon (III.i)
  • "Dogs of War", 2006 song by Ghostface Killah (featuring Raekwon, Cappadonna, Sun God, and Trife Diesel)
  • "The Evil That Men Do", 1986 song by Yo La Tengo on the album Ride the Tiger (III.ii)
  • "The Evil That Men Do", 1988 song by Iron Maiden (III.ii)
  • "Evil That Men Do", 1989 song by Queen Latifah on the album All Hail the Queen (III.ii)
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 (II.i)
  • Back with Two Beasts, album by The Church (II.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[]

Antony and Cleopatra
  • New Heaven, New Earth (subtitle: The Visionary Experience in Literature) by Joyce Carol Oates (I.i)
  • An Inch of Fortune by Simon Raven (I.ii)
  • Salad Days, 1928 novel by Theodora Benson (I.v)
  • Salad Days (in English translation), 1980 novel by Françoise Sagan (I.v)
  • 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 L. Sayers (III.xiii)
  • Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell (III.xiii)
  • The Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell (IV.xv)
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 Seven Ages by Eva Figes (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
  • A Little Less Than Kind by Charlotte Armstrong (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)
  • The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton; 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)
  • 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)
  • 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]
  • Method — Or Madness? by Robert Lewis (from "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't", II.ii)
  • Nutshell by Ian McEwan (from "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space", II.ii)
  • Kings of Infinite Space, 1967 novel by Nigel Balchin (as above, II.ii)
  • How Like a God by Brenda Clough (II.ii)
  • "2 B R 0 2 B" 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)
  • No Traveller Returns by John Collier (III.i)
  • The Name of Action by Graham Greene (III.i)
  • All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman (III.i)
  • Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr (III.ii)
  • Begin, Murderer by Desmond Cory (III.ii)
  • Contagion to This World by John Lodwick (III.ii)
  • Flush As May by P. M. Hubbard (III.iii)
  • 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)
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
  • Put on By Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
  • Bid the Soldiers Shoot by John Lodwick (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 IV, Part 2
  • Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire (III.ii)
Henry V
  • One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire (I.ii)
  • So Vile a Sin by Ben Aaronovitch & Kate Orman (II.iv)
  • Unto the Breach by John Ringo (III.i)
  • We Few by David Weber and John Ringo (IV.iii)
  • Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose (IV.iii)
Henry VI, Part 1
  • Bring Forth the Body by Simon Raven (II.ii)
Henry VI, Part 3
  • Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire (IV.iv)
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)
  • Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire (V.v)
Julius Caesar
  • "The Ides of March", 1898 short story by E. W. Hornung (I.ii)
  • The Ides of March, 1948 novel by Thornton Wilder (I.ii)
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (from "The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars", I.ii)
  • Messengers of Day by Anthony Powell (II.i)
  • This Little Measure by Sara Woods (III.i)
  • The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth (III.i)
  • The Evil That Men Do, 1904 novel by M. P. Shiel (III.ii)
  • The Evil That Men Do, 1969 novel by John Brunner (III.ii)
  • The Evil That Men Do, 1978 novel by R. Lance Hill (III.ii)
  • The Evil That Men Do, a non-fiction book co-authored by retired FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood (III.ii)
  • The Evil That Men Do, 2000 Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel 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
  • The Case of the Gilded Lily by Erle Stanley Gardner (from "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily", II.ii)
  • Twice-Told Tales by Charles Dickens (III.iv)
  • 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)
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons ("cold comfort" is from V.vii)
King Lear
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)
  • Dagger of the Mind by Bob Shaw (II.i)
  • Sleep No More by George Sims (II.ii)
  • Sleep No More by L. T. C. Rolt (II.ii)
  • To Fear a Painted Devil, 1965 novel by Ruth Rendell (II.ii)
  • A Painted Devil, 1975 novel by Rachel Billington (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)
  • Double, Double, 1950 novel by Ellery Queen (IV.i)
  • Double, Double, 1969 novel by John Brunner (IV.i)
  • Double, Double, 1989 Star Trek novel by Michael Jan Friedman (IV.i)
  • 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)
  • "When Birnam Wood" by Larry Niven (chapter from The Integral Trees) (IV.i, etc.)
  • Come Like Shadows by Simon Raven (IV.i)
  • The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire (IV.iii)
  • A Rooted Sorrow by P. M. Hubbard (V.iii)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield (V.v)
  • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut (V.v)
  • All Our Yesterdays by Robert B. Parker (V.v)
  • All My Yesterdays by Cecil Arthur Lewis (from "all our yesterdays", V.v)
  • Brief Candles by Aldous Huxley (from "Out, out, brief candle!", V.v)
  • Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker (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)
  • Four Tales Told by an Idiot by Ted Hughes (as above, 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)
  • Hear not my Steps by L. T. C. Rolt (II.i)
Measure for Measure
  • Mortality and Mercy in Vienna by Thomas Pynchon (I.i)
  • A Thirsty Evil by P. M. Hubbard (I.ii)
  • Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman (II.i)
The Merchant of Venice
  • The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore (title)
  • "A Pound of Flesh" by Thane Rosenbaum (chapter from Rosenbaum's book The Myth of Moral Justice) (I.iii, etc.)
  • Villain with a Smiling Cheek by Paul Murray (I.iii)
  • All That Glitters by Frances Parkinson Keyes (from "All that glisters is not gold", II.vii)
  • The Quality of Mercy, 1989 novel by Faye Kellerman (IV.i)
  • The Quality of Mercy autobiography of Mercedes McCambridge, and others (IV.i)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer (I.i)
Richard II
  • This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young (II.i)
  • Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry (from "every thing is left at six and seven", II.ii)
  • Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (III.ii)
  • Who Are the Violets Now? by Auberon Waugh (V.ii)
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
  • An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire (I.i)
  • The Strangers All Are Gone by Anthony Powell (I.v)
  • Deny Thy Father by Jeff Mariotte (II.ii)
  • "What's in a Name?" by Isaac Asimov (II.ii)
  • Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (II.ii)
  • Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (II.ii)
  • It Was the Nightingale by Ford Madox Ford (III.v)
The Sonnets
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)
  • Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of by Robert Bloch (from "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on", 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)
  • Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Timon of Athens
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (III.v)
  • Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (III, vi)
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (IV.iii)
Titus Andronicus
  • Gentle People by Irwin Shaw (V.iii)
Troilus and Cressida
  • Alms for Oblivion, series of novels by Simon Raven (III.iii)
  • Not the Glory by Pierre Boulle (IV.i)
Twelfth Night
  • Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham (II.iii)
  • Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (II.iii)
  • To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King (III.i)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire (II.iii)
Venus and Adonis
  • A Red Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire
The Winter's Tale
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston (stage direction in III.iii)
  • Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (IV.iv)
  • The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire (IV.iv)
  • He Drank, and Saw the Spider by Alex Bledsoe (from "I have drunk, / and seen the spider.", II.i)

Poetry[]

Hamlet
  • The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin (from "I was the more deceived", III.i)
  • "Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)
Julius Caesar
King Lear
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
Macbeth
  • "Out, Out–" by Robert Frost (V.i)
Romeo and Juliet
  • Not So Deep as a Well by Dorothy Parker (III.i)
The Tempest
  • "Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
  • "Full Fathom Five" by Samuel Menashe (.ii)
  • "Pearls That Were" by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)

Television[]

Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Hamlet
  • Be All My Sins Remember'd, 2008 Stargate: Atlantis episode (III.i)
  • 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) (every episode of the series also took its title from a Shakespearean quotation)
  • "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
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
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
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
The Tempest
  • "Sea Change" (Transformers episode) (I.ii)

Other[]

Antony and Cleopatra
  • Salad Days, manga (I.v)
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)
  • We Happy Few, video game (IV.iii)
Julius Caesar
  • Cry Havok, volume 4 title of comic book series X-Men Blue (an intentional misspelling of "cry havoc", III.i)
  • Dogs of War, comic book series (III.i)
  • Dogs of War: Battle on Primus IV, computer game (III.i)
  • Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, limited comic book series (III.ii)
Macbeth
  • Toil and Trouble, volume 2 title of comic book series X-Men Blue (IV.i)
The Merchant of Venice
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)

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