List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases

The following is a partially complete list of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases. It is organized by type of work. Some titles appear in multiple categories and are marked with ++. Note that this is "not" the place to list film or television adaptations of Shakespeare's plays; the article Shakespeare on screen exists for that purpose.

Novels, short stories and nonfiction

;"Antony and Cleopatra"
*"Gaudy Night" by Dorothy Sayers (III.xiii) ;"As You Like It":
*"Under the Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy (II.v)
*"All the Stars a Stage" by James Blish, a parody of "All the world's a stage" (II.vii)

;"Hamlet":
*"Too, Too Solid Flesh" by Nick O'Donahoe (I.ii)
*"Something Rotten" by Jasper Fforde (I.iv)
*"The Glimpses of the Moon" by Edith Wharton; Edmund Crispin (I.iv)
*"There are More Things" by Jorge Luis Borges (I.v)
*"More Things in Heaven" by John Brunner (I.v)
*"And Be a Villain" by Rex Stout (I.v)
*"Time Out of Joint" by Philip K. Dick (I.v)
*"Murder Most Foul" used by several different mystery writers (I.v)
*"How Like an Angel" by Margaret Millar (II.ii)
*"Her Privates We" by Frederic Manning (II.ii)
*"What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson (III.i)
*"Mortal Coils" by Aldous Huxley (III.i)
*"Perchance to Dream" by Robert B. Parker, Howard Weinstein ("" novel) and John Wyndham (III.i)
*"Put on by Cunning" by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
*"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
*"The Dead Father's Club" by Matt HaigFact|date=August 2008

;"Henry IV, part 1":
*"Time Must Have a Stop" by Aldous Huxley (V.iv)

;"Henry V":
*"Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose (IV.iii)

;"Julius Caesar":
*"The Dogs of War" by Frederick Forsyth (III.i)
*"The Evil that Men Do" Buffy novel, and others++ (III.ii)
*"There is a Tide" by Agatha Christie (also known as "Taken at the Flood") (IV.iii)

;"Macbeth":
*"All My Yesterdays", used by both Edward G. Robinson and Cecil Lewis++ (V.v)
*"Brief Candles" by Aldous Huxley (V.v)
*"By the Pricking of My Thumbs" by Agatha Christie (IV.i)
*"A Charm of Powerful Trouble" by Joanne Horniman (IV.i)
*"Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (II.i)
*"Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr
*"A Heart So White" by Javier Marias (II.ii)
*"The Moon is Down" by John Steinbeck (II.i)
*"The Seeds of Time" by John Wyndham (I.iii)
*"Something Wicked this Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury (IV.i)
*"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (V.v)
*"Taste of Fears" by Margaret Millar
*"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (V.v)
*"The Way to Dusty Death" by Alistair MacLean (V.v)
*"Wyrd Sisters" by Terry Pratchett (I.iii, etc.)

;"The Merchant of Venice":
*"The Quality of Mercy" autobiography of Mercedes McCambridge, and others (IV.i)
*"A Pound of Flesh" by Thane Rosenbaum (chapter from Rosenbaum's book "The Myth of Moral Justice")

;"Othello":
*"Mortal Engines" by Philip Reeve
*"Mortal Engines" by Stanislaw Lem
*"Pomp and Circumstance" by Noel Coward++ (III.iii)
*"Richer Than All His Tribe" by Nicholas Monsarrat (V.ii)

;"Richard II":
*"Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson (III.ii)

;"Richard III":
*"The Winter of Our Discontent" by John Steinbeck (I.i)

;"Romeo and Juliet":
*"Inconstant Moon", by Larry Niven (II.ii)

;"The Sonnets":
*"The Darling Buds of May" by H.E. Bates++ (XVIII)
*"Chronicles of Wasted Time" by Malcolm Muggeridge (CVI)
*"The Pebbled Shore" by Elizabeth Longford (LX)
*"Summer's Lease" by John Mortimer (XVIII)
*"Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust (only in English translation) (XXX)
*"Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" by Kate Wilhelm (LXXIII)
*"Nothing Like the Sun" by Anthony Burgess (CXXX)

;"The Tempest":
*"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
*"Something Rich and Strange" by Patricia A. McKillip (I.ii)
*"This Rough Magic" by Mary Stewart (V.i)

;"Timon of Athens":
*"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov (IV.iii)

;"Twelfth Night":
*"Cakes and Ale" by William Somerset Maugham (II.iii)
*"Sad Cypress" by Agatha Christie (II.iii)

Drama

*"All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare" by John Reed (novelist)

;"All's Well That Ends Well:"
*"All's Hell That Ends Well:" by Travis Mayo

;"Antony and Cleopatra"
*"Salad Days", musical by Julian Slade

;"Hamlet:"
*"Perchance to Dream" musical by Ivor Novello (III.i)
*"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" by Tom Stoppard (V.ii)

;"Othello":
*"Journey's End" by R.C. Sherriff (V.ii) (also occurs in "Twelfth Night" (II.iii))
*"Passing Strange", musical by Stew (I.iii)

;"The Sonnets":
*"Fortune and Men's Eyes" (two different plays) (XXIX)

;"Twelfth Night":
*"Present Laughter" by Noel Coward (II.iii)

Poetry

;"Hamlet":
*"Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)

;"King Lear"
*"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", Robert Browning

;"Macbeth":
*"Out, Out–" by Robert Frost (V.i)

;"The Tempest":
*"Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)

Radio

;"Hamlet":
*"The Mortal Coil" (An Adventures in Odyssey two-part episode) (III.i)

Film/Television

;"Hamlet":
*"" ("Star Trek" movie) (III.i)
*"The Conscience of the King" ("Star Trek" episode) (II.ii)
*"Thine Own Self" ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode) (I.iii)
*"" ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode) (I.v)
*"Mortal Coil" ("Star Trek: Voyager" episode) (III.i)
*"To the Manor Born" by Peter Spence, a parody of "To the manner born" (I.iv)
*"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", 1990 film version of Stoppard play. (V.ii)
*"To Be or Not to Be" A film made in 1942 (remade in 1983 by Mel Brooks). (III.i)
*"North by Northwest" (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) (II.ii)
*"What Dreams May Come" 1998 film version of Matheson novel. (III.i)
*"Slings & Arrows" 2003 Showcase Original Series. (III.i)
*"Outrageous Fortune (film)", film written by Leslie Dixon (III.i)
*"Outrageous Fortune (TV series)", 2005-present television series (III.i)
*"The Paragon of Animals" ("Babylon 5" episode) (II.ii)
*"Leave Her to Heaven", 1945 20th Century Fox film with Gene Tierney. ;"Henry IV, part 2"
*"Chimes at Midnight", 1965 film by Orson Welles (III.ii)

;"Henry V":
*"Once More Unto the Breach" ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode) (III.i)
*"Band of Brothers, miniseries based on book (IV.iii)

;"Julius Caesar":
*"The Dogs of War" ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode) (III.i)
*"The Dogs of War" (The West Wing Episode Season 5) (III.i)
*"The Evil That Men Do (film) (III.ii)
*"The Serpent's Egg (film)++ (II.i)
*"Star Wars" by George Lucas

;"King Lear":
*"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" ("Star Trek" animated episode) (I.iv)

;"Macbeth":
*"Dagger of the Mind" ("Star Trek" episode) (II.i)
*"All Our Yesterdays" ("Star Trek" episode)++ (V.v)
*"All Our Yesterdays" (UK Television historical news programme of the 1960s - 1970s) (V.v)
*"The Birnam Wood" (The West Wing Episode Season 6) (IV.i etc.)

;"The Merchant of Venice":
*"The Quality of Mercy" ("Babylon 5" episode) (IV.i)

"A Midsummer Night's Dream:"
*"Ill Met by Moonlight" 1957 Film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
*"Ill Met by Moonlight" (1996 episode of "Gargoyles") (II.i)

;"Othello":
*"Star Wars" by George Lucas

;"Richard II"
*"The Demi-Paradise" 1943 film with Laurence Olivier

;"Richard III":
*"My Kingdom for a Horse" (1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean) (V.iv)
*"The Winter of Our Discontent", 1983 TV movie of Steinbeck novel. (I.i)
*"Where Eagles Dare", 1967 film (I.iii)

;"Romeo and Juliet":
*"By Any Other Name" ("Star Trek" episode) (II.ii)

;"The Sonnets":
*"The Darling Buds of May" UK TV comedy based on HE Bates’ novel.++ (XVIII)
*"Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1971 film of later play) (XXIX)

;"The Winter's Tale:"
*"Fresh Horses" 1988 Film by David Anspaugh

Other

;"Hamlet":
*"Infinite Jest" (album by We Are The Fury) (V.i)

;"Henry V":
*"Household Words" (magazine) (IV.iii)

;"Julius Caesar":
*"The Dogs of War" (song by Pink Floyd) (III.i)
*"Dogs of War" (album by Saxon) (III.i)

;"Macbeth":
*"The Moon is Down" (album by Further Seems Forever) (II.i)

;"Othello":
*"Pomp and Circumstance Marches" by Edward Elgar++ (III.iii)

;"The Sonnets":
*"...Nothing Like the Sun" (album by Sting) (CXXX)

;"The Tempest":
*"Full Fathom Five" (painting by Jackson Pollock) (I.ii)
*"Sea Change" (album by Beck) (I.ii)
*"Come Unto These Yellow Sands" (painting by Richard Dadd) (I.ii)

External links

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