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.
- From the title:
- See As You Like It (disambiguation)
- From "Under the greenwood tree" (II.v):
- 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
- Most Loving Mere Folly, 1953 novel by Edith Pargeter (Ii.vii)
- The Lie Direct, 1983 novel by Sara Woods (V.iv)
- From "O! a kiss / Long as my exile" (V.iii):
- 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?"
- 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):[1]
- 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)
- "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)
- 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