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

  • Perhaps 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)

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As You Like It

  • From the title:
  • :See As You Like It (disambiguation)
  • From "Under the greenwood tree" (II.v):
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872 novel by Thomas Hardy
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1918 film
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1929 film adaptation of Hardy's novel
  • 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):
  • 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?" [http://manybooks.net/pages/manningfother080200261/0.html]
  • From "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space" (II.ii):
  • 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

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  • 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)
  • There's the Rub, 1974 album by Wishbone Ash
  • "There's the Rub", 2002 Gilmore Girls episode
  • :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 (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):
  • 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)
  • Paint an Inch Thick by Adam Dompierre (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

  • Loosely based on "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" (III.i):
  • :See Heavy Is the Head (disambiguation) and Heavy Lies the Crown (disambiguation)
  • 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, 1969–1975 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

  • "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):
  • The Fault in Our Stars, 2012 novel by John Green
  • Dear Brutus, 1917 play by J. M. Barrie
  • 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):
  • Friends, Voters, Countrymen, 2001 book by Boris Johnson
  • :See also Lend Me Your Ears (disambiguation)
  • "Not to Praise Him", 2002 episode of The Bill
  • :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

  • From "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily" (II.ii):
  • :See Gilded Lily (disambiguation)
  • Twice-Told Tales by Charles Dickens (III.iv)
  • Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (III.iv)
  • Twice-Told Tales, 1963 film (III.iv)
  • Twice Told Tales, 2015 album by 10,000 Maniacs
  • From "Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones" (IV.iii):
  • England Have My Bones by T. H. White
  • England Keep My Bones, 2011 album by Frank Turner

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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)

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  • 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

  • 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):
  • 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 This Way Comes (disambiguation) and Something Wicked (disambiguation)
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (IV.i)
  • 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)
  • 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):
  • :See Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (disambiguation) and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (disambiguation)
  • :See All Our Yesterdays (disambiguation)
  • The Way to Dusty Death, a 1973 novel by Alistair MacLean
  • Dusty Death, a 1931 novel of drug smuggling by Clifton Robbins
  • "Out, Out—", a 1916 poem by Robert Frost
  • "Out, Out Brief Candle", an episode of Six Feet Under
  • Brief Candles, a collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley.
  • Walking Shadow, published in 1994, is the 21st Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker.
  • Told by an Idiot, a 1923 novel by Rose Macaulay
  • Four Tales Told by an Idiot, a 1979 collection of poems by Ted Hughes
  • :See Sound and Fury (disambiguation)
  • "Signifying Nothing", a short story in the 1999 collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Measure for Measure

  • From the title:
  • Measure for Measure, 1986 album by Icehouse
  • Measure for Murder, 1941 novel by (III.i)
  • "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna", 1959 short story by Thomas Pynchon (I.i)
  • A Thirsty Evil, 2013 novel by P. M. Hubbard (I.ii)
  • Another Thing to Fall, 2008 novel by Laura Lippman (II.i)

The Merchant of Venice

  • From the title:
  • The Merchants of Venus, 1972 novella by Frederik Pohl
  • Merchants of Venus, 1998 film
  • The Serpent of Venice, 2014 book by Christopher Moore
  • Villain with a Smiling Cheek, 1948 book by Paul Murray (I.iii)
  • From "pound of flesh" (III.iii et passim):
  • :See Pound of Flesh (disambiguation)
  • Perhaps from "All that glisters is not gold" (II.vii):
  • :See All That Glitters (disambiguation)
  • Perhaps from "between you and I" (III.ii):
  • Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English, 2003 book by James Cochrane
  • "Between You & I", 2006 song by Jessica Simpson
  • "Between You & I", 2019 song by Kita Alexander
  • From "The quality of mercy is not strained" (IV.i):
  • :See The Quality of Mercy (disambiguation)
  • From "So shines a good deed in a naughty world" (V.i):
  • "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World", 2013 30 Rock episode

A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • From the title:
  • :See A Midsummer Night's Dream (disambiguation)
  • Ill Met by Moonlight, 1950 book by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)
  • Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film adaptation of Moss's book, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
  • Ill Met by Moonlight, 1994 film by S. P. Somtow (II.i)
  • "Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (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)

Much Ado About Nothing

  • From the title:
  • :See Much Ado About Nothing (disambiguation)
  • From "Sigh no more" (II.iii):
  • :See Sigh No More (disambiguation)
  • Kill Claudio by P. M. Hubbard (IV.i)

Othello

  • From "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" (I.i):
  • :See Heart on My Sleeve (disambiguation)
  • 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 "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on" (III.ii.111):
  • :See Green-Eyed Monster (disambiguation)
  • 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

  • This Sceptred Isle, 1995 radio series on British history
  • The Demi-Paradise, 1943 film with Laurence Olivier (II.i)
  • This Happy Breed, 1939 play by Noël Coward (II.i)
  • This Happy Breed, 1944 film directed by David Lean, based on Coward's play (II.i)
  • This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young (II.i)

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  • Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (III.ii)
  • From "the hollow crown" (III.ii):
  • :See The Hollow Crown (disambiguation)
  • Who Are the Violets Now? by Auberon Waugh (V.ii)

Richard III

  • From "Now is the winter of our discontent" (I.i):
  • :See Winter of Discontent (disambiguation)
  • From "where eagles dare" (I.iii):
  • :See Where Eagles Dare (disambiguation)
  • Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías (V.iii)
  • From "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" (V.iv):
  • My Kingdom for a Cook, 1943 film
  • My Kingdom for a Horse, 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean

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)
  • From "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet" (II.ii):
  • :See What's in a Name? (disambiguation)
  • "By Any Other Name", 1968 Star Trek episode
  • A Rose by Any Other Name, 1975 album by Ronnie Milsap
  • Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (II.ii)
  • Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (II.ii)
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow", ER episode (II.ii)
  • Not So Deep as a Well, poem by Dorothy Parker (III.i)
  • Both Your Houses, play by Maxwell Anderson (III.i)
  • It Was the Nightingale by Ford Madox Ford (III.v)

The Sonnets

  • The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates (XVIII)
  • The Darling Buds of May, TV comedy based on H. E. Bates's novel (XVIII)
  • Summer's Lease by John Mortimer (XVIII)
  • From "fortune and men's eyes" (XXIX):
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1967 play by John Herbert

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  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1971 film adaptation of John Herbert's play
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1987 album by Jennifer Caron Hall
  • From "heaven's gate" (XXIX):
  • :See Heaven's Gate (disambiguation)
  • 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)
  • ...Nothing Like the Sun, album by Sting (CXXX)
  • A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)
  • Too Dear for My Possessing by Pamela Hansford Johnson (CXXXVII)
  • No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell (CXLVI)

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

  • Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here, album by Anaal Nathrakh (I.ii)
  • Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (I.ii)
  • From Ariel's Song (I.ii):
  • Come Unto These Yellow Sands, 1842 painting by Richard Dadd
  • Full Fathom Five, 1947 painting by Jackson Pollock
  • :See Full Fathom Five (disambiguation)
  • :See Sea change (disambiguation)
  • "Pearls That Were", poem by J. H. Prynne
  • Something Rich and Strange, 1994 novel by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock
  • From "misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows" (II.ii):
  • :See Strange bedfellows (disambiguation)
  • The Isle Is Full of Noises, play by Derek Walcott (III.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)
  • This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (V.i)
  • Rough Magic, 1995 film with Russell Crowe and Bridget Fonda (V.i)
  • Where the Bee Sucks, poetry anthology by Iolo Aneurin Williams (V.i)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
  • Every Third Thought by John Barth (V.i)

Timon of Athens

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  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (III.v)
  • Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (III.vi)
  • Fools of Fortune, 1990 film of William Trevor's novel (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) <!--line 151-->

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  • Not the Glory by Pierre Boulle (IV.i)

Twelfth Night

  • The Food Of Love, 2011 novel by Anthony Capella (I.i)
  • Present Laughter, play by Noël Coward (II.iii)
  • Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham (II.iii)
  • Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (II.iv)
  • To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King (III.i)
  • Improbable Fiction, play by Alan Ayckbourn (III.iv)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  • The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire (II.iii)

The Winter's Tale

  • There Was A Man Dwelt by a Churchyard, short story by M. R. James (from "There was a man ... Dwelt by a churchyard", II.i)
  • He Drank, and Saw the Spider by Alex Bledsoe (from "I have drunk, and seen the spider", II.i)
  • Fresh Horses, 1988 film by David Anspaugh (III.i)

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  • 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)

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

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