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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 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
From "Under the greenwood tree" (II.v):
The Lie Direct , 1983 novel by
Sara Woods (V.iv)
Coriolanus
From "O! a kiss / Long as my exile" (V.iii):
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):
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):
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)
From "The time is out of joint" (I.v):
From "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" (II.ii):
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?"
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From "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space" (II.ii):
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):
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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)
See
Perchance to Dream (disambiguation)
See
What Dreams May Come (disambiguation)
See
Mortal coil (disambiguation)
From "I was the more deceived" (III.i):
"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):
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):
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
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):
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):
See also
Lend Me Your Ears (disambiguation)
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):
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
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)
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
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow § Titular reuses
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
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale
Other
See also
References
External links