List of Titles of Works Based On Shakespearean Phrases - Drama

Drama

Antony and Cleopatra
  • Salad Days, musical by Julian Slade
As You Like It
  • All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare by John Reed (novelist)
Hamlet:
  • Perchance to Dream musical by Ivor Novello (III.i)
  • The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie (III.ii)
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (V.ii)
  • Cue for Passion by Elmer Rice (II.ii)
Much Ado About Nothing
  • Sigh No More, musical revue by Noël Coward and others (II.iii)
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)
The Tempest
  • The Isle Is Full of Noises by Derek Walcott (III.ii)
Twelfth Night
  • Present Laughter by Noël Coward (II.iii)
  • Improbable Fiction by Alan Ayckbourn (II.iii)

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