List of titles of works taken from Shakespeare

The following is a 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.

''Antony and Cleopatra''

* From "Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new Earth" (I.i – but cf. also Revelation 21):
**''New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature'' by Joyce Carol Oates
*''An Inch of Fortune'' by Simon Raven (I.ii)
* From "My salad days / When I was green in judgment" (I.v):
*: ''See Salad Days (disambiguation)''
*''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''

* 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: A New Play by William Shakespeare'', 2008 play by John Reed
**''The Seven Ages'' by Eva Figes (II.vii)
**''Sans Everything'' by Barbara Robb (II.vii)
* From "Under the greenwood tree" (II.v):
**''Under the Greenwood Tree'' by Thomas Hardy
**''Under the Greenwood Tree'', 1918 film
**''Under the Greenwood Tree'', 1929 film adaptation of Hardy's novel
*''The Lie Direct'' by Sara Woods (V.iv)

''Coriolanus''

*From "O! a kiss / Long as my exile" (V.iii):
**'' The Exile Kiss'' by George Alec Effinger

''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):
**'' To the Manor Born'', 1979–1981 television series
*'' 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):
**''Leave Her to Heaven'', 1940 play by John Van Druten
**''Leave Her to Heaven'', 1944 novel by Ben Ames Williams
**''Leave Her to Heaven'', 1945 film of Williams's novel
*''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)
**" There Are More Things", 1975 short story by Jorge Luis Borges
**''There Are More Things'', 2022 novel by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
**'' More Things in Heaven'', 1973 novel by John Brunner
*From "The time is out of joint" (I.v):
**''Time Out of Joint'' by Philip K. Dick
*From "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" (II.ii):
**'' Method — Or Madness?'', 1957 lecture series by Robert Lewis
**'' Method to the Maadness'', 2010 album by Kano
**''Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis'', 2011 documentary film
*''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?

* From "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space" (II.ii):
**'' Nutshell (novel), Nutshell'', 2016 novel by Ian McEwan
**''Kings of Infinite Space'', 1967 novel by Nigel Balchin
**''Kings of Infinite Space'', 2004 novel by James Hynes
*''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):
**''North by Northwest'', 1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock

*''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)''
**'' Slings & Arrows'', 2003 Showcase Original Series
**'' Outrageous Fortune'', 1987 film written by Leslie Dixon
**'' Outrageous Fortune'', 2005–2010 television series. ( Every episode of the series also took its title from a Shakespearean quotation.)
*:''See Perchance to Dream (disambiguation)''
*:''See What Dreams May Come (disambiguation)''
*:''See Mortal coil (disambiguation)''
**''With a Bare Bodkin'' by Cyril Hare
**'' The Undiscovered Country'', 1991 ''Star Trek'' film
**''No Traveller Returns'' by John Collier
**''The Name of Action'' by Graham Greene
**'' Be All My Sins Remember'd'', 2008 ''Stargate: Atlantis'' episode
**''All My Sins Remembered'' by Joe Haldeman
*From "I was the more deceived" (III.i):
**'' The Less Deceived'', poem by Philip Larkin
*"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 (III.iv)
*''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):
**''Alas! Poor Yorick!'', 1913 film starring Fatty Arbuckle
**"Alas, Poor Maling", 1940 short story by Graham Greene
**'' Alas Poor Yagan'', 1997 editorial cartoon by Dean Alston
*''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):
**''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'', 1966 play by Tom Stoppard
**''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'', 1990 film adaptation of Stoppard's play
**'' Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead'', 2009 film by Jordan Galland
*''Put on By Cunning'' by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
*''Bid the Soldiers Shoot'' by John Lodwick (V.ii)

''Henry IV, Part 1''

*''Tarry and Be Hanged'' by Sara Woods (I.ii)
*''I Know a Trick Worth Two of That'' by Samuel Holt (pseudonym for Donald E. Westlake) (II.i)
*''Time Must Have a Stop'' by Aldous Huxley (V.iv)

''Henry IV, Part 2''

*'' Chimes at Midnight'', 1965 film by Orson Welles (III.ii)
*''Chimes at Midnight'' by Seanan McGuire (III.ii)

''Henry V''

*''One Salt Sea'', 2011 novel by Seanan McGuire (I.ii)
*'' So Vile a Sin'', 1997 novel by Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman (II.iv)
*From "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" (III.i):
**" Once More unto the Breach", 1998 ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode
**'' Once More Unto the Breach'', 2019 film
**''Unto the Breach'', 2006 novel by John Ringo
**'' Once More into the Bleach'', 1988 album by Debbie Harry and Blondie
*From the St Crispin's Day Speech (IV.iii):
**''Household Words'', magazine edited by Charles Dickens
**''We Few'', 2005 novel by David Weber and John Ringo
**'' We Happy Few'', 2016 video game
*:

''Henry VI, Part 1''

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

''Henry VI, Part 2''

*''The Main Chance'', 1969–75 television series (I.i)

''Henry VI, Part 3''

*''Once Broken Faith'' by Seanan McGuire (IV.iv)

''Henry VIII''

*From the alternative title:
**''All Is True'', 2018 film
*''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''

*'' Dear Brutus'', play by J. M. Barrie (I.ii)
*'' 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)
*"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)
*" 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)
*"The Hollow Men", poem by T. S. Eliot (IV.ii)
*" 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)
*''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)
* ''Hogs of War PlayStation 1 Atari/Infogames game

''King John''

*'' Twice-Told Tales'', 1963 film (III.iv)
*''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)
*'' England Keep My Bones,'' 2011 album by Frank Turner
*''Cold Comfort Farm'' by Stella Gibbons ("cold comfort" is from V.vii)

''King Lear''

*''Words of Love'' by Pearl S. Buck (I.i)
*''Late Eclipses'' by Seanan McGuire (I.ii)
*'' If We Were Villains'' by M. L. Rio (I.ii)
*From "How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child" (I.iv):
**"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", 1974 ''Star Trek'' animated episode
**"The Serpent's Tooth", 2000 ''My Family'' episode
*"A Father's Curse" by Honoré de Balzac (I.iv)
*''Faces in My Time'' by Anthony Powell (II.ii)
*From "I am a man / More sinned against than sinning" (III.ii):
**"More Spinned Against", short story by John Wyndham
*''Act of Darkness'' by Francis King (III.iv.93)
*From "Child Rowland to the dark tower came" (III.iv.195):
**"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", poem by Robert Browning
*:''See The Dark Tower (disambiguation)''
*'' The Lake of Darkness'' by Ruth Rendell (III.v)
*''Every Inch a King'' by Harry Turtledove (IV.vi)
*From "the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight" (IV.vi):
**''The Case of the Gilded Fly'' by Edmund Crispin
*From "I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (IV.vii):
**''The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy'' by G. Wilson Knight
*''Ripeness is All'' by Eric Linklater (V.ii)

*'' Full Circle'', 1975 novel by Peter Straub (V.iii)
*'' Full Circle'', 1984 novel by Danielle Steel (V.iii)
*'' 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)
*'' 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):
**'' To Fear a Painted Devil'', 1965 novel by Ruth Rendell
**''A Painted Devil'', 1975 novel by Rachel Billington
*''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 ''
**''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)''
*From "until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come" (IV.i, with variations thereafter)
**"When Birnam Wood" by Larry Niven (chapter from ''The Integral Trees'')
**"The Birnam Wood", ''The West Wing'' Season 6 episode
*''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)
*''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 ''

''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)
*''Measure for Murder'' by Clifford Witting (III.i)

''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
*'' 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
*''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)
* "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
*"The Quality of Mercy", Inspector Lewis episode
*" The Quality of Mercy", ''Babylon 5'' episode (IV.i)
*" A Goon's Deed in a Weary World", ''30 Rock'' episode (from "so shines a good deed in a naughty world", V.i)
*'' A Pound of Flesh for 50p'', 2014 artwork by Alex Chinneck (a play on "pound of flesh", III.iii ''et passim'')

''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
*'' A Midsummer Night's Gene'' by Andrew Harman (title)
*''Ill Met by Moonlight'' by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)
*''Night and Silence'' by Seanan McGuire (II.ii)
*''Bottom's Dream'' by Arno Schmidt (IV.i)
*''A Local Habitation'' by Seanan McGuire (V.i)
*" A Midsummer's Nice Dream", 2011 episode of ''The Simpsons'' (title)
*"Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of '' Gargoyles'' (II.i)

''Much Ado About Nothing''

*'' Sigh No More'', musical revue by Noël Coward and others (II.iii)
*''Sigh No More'', album by Dog Age (II.iii)
*'' Sigh No More'', album by Gamma Ray
*'' Sigh No More'', album by Mumford and Sons
*''Kill Claudio'' by P. M. Hubbard (IV.i)

''Othello''

*From "the beast with two backs" (I.i):
*:''See ''
*From "passing strange" (I.iii):
*:''See Passing Strange (disambiguation)''
*''Nothing if Not Critical'' by Robert Hughes (II.i)
*From "Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!" (III.iii):
**''Pomp and Circumstance Marches'', orchestral marches by Edward Elgar
**''Pomp and Circumstance'', novel by Noël Coward
*From "mortal engines" (III.iii):
*:''See Mortal Engines (disambiguation)''
*From "journey's end" (V.ii – but cf. also ''Twelfth Night'', II.iii):
*:''See Journey's End (disambiguation)''
*'' 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''

*''The Demi-Paradise'', 1943 film with Laurence Olivier (II.i)
*'' This Happy Breed'', 1944 film directed by David Lean, based on the play by Noël Coward (II.i)
*''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)
*''The Hollow Crown'', 2012 television adaptation of the Henriad (III.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)
*''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)
*'' The Winter of Our Discontent'' by John Steinbeck (I.i)
*''Where Eagles Dare'' by Alistair MacLean (I.iii)
*'' Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me'' by Javier Marías (V.iii)
*"The Winter of Our Monetized Content", 2019 episode of ''The Simpsons'' (I.i)
*''My Kingdom for a Horse'', 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean (V.iv)

''Romeo and Juliet''

*'' Both Your Houses'', play by Maxwell Anderson (III.i)
*'' A Rose by Any Other Name'', 1975 album by Ronnie Milsap (II.ii)
*''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)
*''Not So Deep as a Well'', poem by Dorothy Parker (III.i)
*" 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''

*'' Fortune and Men's Eyes'' (two different plays) (XXIX)
*'' Fortune and Men's Eyes'', 1971 film adaptation of John Herbert's play (XXIX)
*'' ...Nothing Like the Sun'', album by Sting (CXXX)
*'' The Darling Buds of May'' by H. E. Bates (XVIII)
*'' Summer's Lease'' by John Mortimer (XVIII)
*'' Remembrance of Things Past'' by Marcel Proust (only in English translation) (XXX)
*''The Pebbled Shore'' by Elizabeth Longford (LX)
*''Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang'' by Kate Wilhelm (LXXIII)
*'' Absent in the Spring'' by Agatha Christie (XCVIII)
*''Chronicles of Wasted Time'' by Malcolm Muggeridge (CVI)
*'' Nothing Like the Sun'' by Anthony Burgess (CXXX)
*''Too Dear for My Possessing'' by Pamela Hansford Johnson (CXXXVII)
*'' No More Dying Then'' by Ruth Rendell (CXXXXVI)
*'' 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'', play by Cole Porter (V.i)
**''Kiss Me Kate'', 1953 film of Cole Porter's musical (V.i)
* ''Kiss Me Kate'', 2009 EP by Kate Tsui (V.i)
*''Kiss Me Kate'', 1998–2000 BBC sitcom (V.i)

''The Tempest''

*'' The Isle Is Full of Noises'', play by Derek Walcott (III.ii)
*'' 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)
*'' 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)
*'' 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
*"Full Fathom Five", poem by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
*"Full Fathom Five", poem by Samuel Menashe (.ii)
*"Pearls That Were", poem by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)
*''Where the Bee Sucks'', poetry anthology by Iolo Aneurin Williams (V.i)
* "Sea Change" (''Transformers'' episode) (I.ii)
*''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)

''Timon of Athens''

*'' Fools of Fortune'', 1990 film of William Trevor's novel (III, vi)

*''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''

*'' Good Riddance'', 1979 film (II.i)
*"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", song by Green Day (II.i)
*''Alms for Oblivion'', series of novels by Simon Raven (III.iii)

*''Not the Glory'' by Pierre Boulle (IV.i)

''Twelfth Night''

*''Present Laughter'', play by Noël Coward (II.iii)
*'' Improbable Fiction'', play by Alan Ayckbourn (II.iii)
*''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)

''The Winter's Tale''

*'' Fresh Horses'', 1988 film by David Anspaugh (III.i)

*''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)
*''There Was A Man Dwelt by a Churchyard'', short story by M. R. James (from "MAMILLIUS There was a man-- HERMIONE Nay, come, sit down; then on. MAMILLIUS Dwelt by a churchyard:", II.i)

Other

*''The Passionate Pilgrim'', 1984 film with Eric Morecambe (from ''The Passionate Pilgrim'', the title of a 16th-century anthology attributed to Shakespeare)
*''A Red Rose Chain'' by Seanan McGuire, from '' Venus and Adonis''

See also

* List of book titles taken from literature

References

External links

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

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