Editing List of works titled after Shakespeare

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The following is a list of [[title (publishing)|titles]] of works taken from [[William Shakespeare|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'' ==
{{main|Antony and Cleopatra}}
* Perhaps from "Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new Earth" (I.i – but cf. also [[Revelation 21#A new heaven and a new earth (21:1–8)|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)
<!--Do not include "The Gods Themselves" (V.ii) by Isaac Asimov; Asimov was quoting from Friedrich Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans"-->

== ''As You Like It'' ==
{{main|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]]'', 1918 film
**''[[Under the Greenwood Tree (1929 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 (album)|All the World's a Stage]]'', 1976 album by [[Rush (band)|Rush]]
**"[[All the World's a Stage (Ugly Betty)|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 (novelist)|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'' ==
{{main|Coriolanus}}
*From "O! a kiss / Long as my exile" (V.iii):
**''[[The Exile Kiss]]'' by [[George Alec Effinger]]

== ''Hamlet'' ==
{{main|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 (Wharton novel)|The Glimpses of the Moon]]'' by [[Edith Wharton]] (I.iv)
*''[[The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)|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 (Fforde)|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 (play)|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 (novelist)|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 (director)|Robert Lewis]]
**''[[Method to the Maadness]]'', 2010 album by [[Kano (rapper)|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 (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 (Babylon 5)|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):<ref>{{citation|url=https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Critical_Inquiry_(1981)_-_North_by_Northwest|first=Stanley|last=Cavell|author-link=Stanley Cavell|date=Summer 1981|journal=[[Critical Inquiry]]|title=North by Northwest|volume=7 |issue=4 |page=764|doi=10.1086/448130 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
**''[[North by Northwest]]'', 1959 film by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
<!--Do not include "The Gods Themselves" (II.ii) by Isaac Asimov; Asimov was quoting from Friedrich Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans"-->
*''Cue for Passion'', play by [[Elmer Rice]] (II.ii)
*"[[The Conscience of the King (Star Trek)|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 (film)|Outrageous Fortune]]'', 1987 film written by [[Leslie Dixon]]
**''[[Outrageous Fortune (TV series)|Outrageous Fortune]]'', 2005–2010 television series. ([[List of Outrageous Fortune episodes|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 (Gilmore Girls)|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]]
**''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|The Undiscovered Country]]'', 1991 ''Star Trek'' film
**''No Traveller Returns'' by [[John Collier (fiction writer)|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 (Spacehog song)|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)|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)|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'' ==
{{main|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'' ==
{{main|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'' ==
{{main|Henry V (play)}}
*''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 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|Once More unto the Breach]]", 1998 ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode
**''[[Once More Unto the Breach (film)|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 (band)|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
*:{{see also|Band of Brothers (disambiguation)}}

== ''Henry VI, Part 1'' ==
{{main|Henry VI, Part 1}}
*''Bring Forth the Body'' by [[Simon Raven]] (II.ii)

== ''Henry VI, Part 2'' ==
{{main|Henry VI, Part 2}}
*''[[The Main Chance]]'', 1969–1975 television series (I.i)

== ''Henry VI, Part 3'' ==
{{main|Henry VI, Part 3}}
*''Once Broken Faith'' by [[Seanan McGuire]] (IV.iv)

== ''Henry VIII'' ==
{{main|Henry VIII (play)}}
*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 (writer)|John Marsden]] (III.ii)
*''Ashes of Honor'' by [[Seanan McGuire]] (V.v)

== ''Julius Caesar'' ==
{{main|Julius Caesar (play)}}
*"Beware the Ides of March", song by [[Colosseum (band)|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)]]''
**"[[The Bill (series 18)|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)
*"[[Known Space#Stories in Known Space|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'' ==
{{main|King John (play)}}
* 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 (film)|Twice-Told Tales]]'', 1963 film (III.iv)
*''[[Twice Told Tales (album)|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]]
<!--"cold comfort" (V.vii) apparently predates Shakespeare and is in The Taming of the Shrew (IV.i) as well as King John-->

== ''King Lear'' ==
{{main|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)
<!--Do not include "The Gods Themselves" (V.iii) by Isaac Asimov; Asimov was quoting from Friedrich Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans"-->
*''[[Julia (novel)|Full Circle]]'', 1975 novel by [[Peter Straub]] (V.iii)
*''[[Full Circle (novel)|Full Circle]]'', 1984 novel by [[Danielle Steel]] (V.iii)
*''[[Speak What We Feel|Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say)]]'' by [[Frederick Buechner]] (V.iii)

== ''Macbeth'' ==
{{main|Macbeth}}
*''[[Fortunes of War (novel series)|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)|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 (novel)|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 {{section link|Double-double (disambiguation)#Literature and media}}''
**''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)]]''
*''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 (TV series)|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; 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 {{section link|Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow#Titular reuses}}''

== ''Measure for Measure'' ==
{{main|Measure for Measure}}
*From the title:
**''[[Measure for Measure (album)|Measure for Measure]]'', 1986 album by [[Icehouse (band)|Icehouse]]
**''Measure for Murder'', 1941 novel by {{ill|Clifford Witting|de||fr||it}} (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'' ==
{{main|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 (author)|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
**"[[A Public Affair|Between You & I]]", 2006 song by [[Jessica Simpson]]
**"[[Between You & I]]", 2019 song by [[Kita Alexander]]
*From "[[The quality of mercy (Shakespeare quote)|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'' ==
{{main|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 (film)|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 (Gargoyles)|Ill Met by Moonlight]]", 1996 episode of ''[[Gargoyles (TV series)|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'' ==
{{main|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'' ==
{{main|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 {{section link|Beast with two backs#See also}}''
*From "passing strange" (I.iii):
*:''See [[Passing Strange (disambiguation)]]''
*''Nothing if Not Critical'' by [[Robert Hughes (critic)|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'' ==
{{main|Pericles, Prince of Tyre}}
*''Behold, Here's Poison'' by [[Georgette Heyer]] (I.i)

== ''Richard II'' ==
{{main|Richard II (play)}}
*''[[This Sceptred Isle (radio series)|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 (film)|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'' ==
{{main|Richard III (play)}}
*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'' ==
{{main|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 (album)|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 (TV series)|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'' ==
{{main|Shakespeare's sonnets}}
*''[[The Darling Buds of May (novel)|The Darling Buds of May]]'' by [[H. E. Bates]] (XVIII)
*''[[The Darling Buds of May (TV series)|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 (playwright)|John Herbert]]
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**''[[Fortune and Men's Eyes#Film adaptation|Fortune and Men's Eyes]]'', 1971 film adaptation of John Herbert's play
**''[[Fortune and Men's Eyes (album)|Fortune and Men's Eyes]]'', 1987 album by [[Jennifer Caron Hall]]
*From "heaven's gate" (XXIX):
*:''See [[Heaven's Gate (disambiguation)]]''
*''[[In Search of Lost Time|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: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life|Nothing Like the Sun]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]] (CXXX)
*''[[...Nothing Like the Sun]]'', album by [[Sting (musician)|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'' ==
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*''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'', play by [[Cole Porter]] (V.i)
**''[[Kiss Me Kate (film)|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 (TV series)|Kiss Me Kate]]'', 1998–2000 BBC sitcom (V.i)

== ''The Tempest'' ==
{{main|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 (novelist)|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'' ==
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*''Gentle People'' by [[Irwin Shaw]] (V.iii)

== ''Troilus and Cressida'' ==
{{main|Troilus and Cressida}}
*''[[Good Riddance (film)|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'' ==
{{main|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'' ==
{{main|The Two Gentlemen of Verona}}
*''The Unkindest Tide'' by [[Seanan McGuire]] (II.iii)

== ''The Winter's Tale'' ==
{{main|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 (film)|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)|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 (Shakespeare poem)|Venus and Adonis]]''

== See also ==
* [[List of book titles taken from literature]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake.html A more comprehensive list of book and play titles which are Shakespearean quotations]

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