List of works titled after Shakespeare

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The following is a list of titles of works taken from Shakespearean phrases. It is organized by type of work. 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

Coriolanus

Hamlet

Henry IV, Part 1

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

Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 2

Henry VI, Part 3

Henry VIII

Julius Caesar

King John

King Lear

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

  • From the title:
    • Measure for Measure, 1986 album by Icehouse
    • Measure for Murder, 1941 novel by 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

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

  • 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 Beast with two backs § See also
  • From "passing strange" (I.iii):
    See Passing Strange (disambiguation)
  • Nothing if Not Critical by 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):
  • 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

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Sonnets

The Taming of the Shrew

  • Kiss Me, Kate, play by Cole Porter (V.i)
    • 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, 1998–2000 BBC sitcom (V.i)

The Tempest

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

  • 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)
  • Not the Glory by Pierre Boulle (IV.i)

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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, 1988 film by David Anspaugh (III.i)
  • 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

See also

References

  1. ^ Cavell, Stanley (Summer 1981), "North by Northwest", Critical Inquiry, 7 (4): 764, doi:10.1086/448130

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