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):
- 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
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, 1979âÂÂ1981 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 â 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
- 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, 2005âÂÂ2010 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
- ', 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
Henry IV, Part 2
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):
- "", 1998 ' 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
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):
- 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
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):
- 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 MarÃÂas (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, OutâÂÂ", 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
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
- 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
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale
Other
See also
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