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)
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 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, 1892 painting by John Everett Millais 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) From "The canker galls the infants of the spring" (I.iii): Infants of the Spring, 1932 novel by Wallace Thurman Infants of the Spring, 1976 memoir by Anthony Powell 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?" 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, 2005–2010 television series. (Every episode of the series also took its title from a Shakespearean quotation.) The Thousand Natural Shocks by Char March 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 "Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead", 1997 Frasier episode 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
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) Half Way Down by Ryan Patch (IV.vi) 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)
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