List of Titles of Works Based On Shakespearean Phrases - Novels, Short Stories and Nonfiction

Novels, Short Stories and Nonfiction

A Midsummer Night's Dream

• A Midsummer Night's Gene by Andrew Harman (title)
• Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)

Antony and Cleopatra

• Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss (II.ii)
• Beds in the East by Anthony Burgess (II.vi)
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers (III.xiii)

As You Like It

• Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (II.v)
• And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish (from "All the world's a stage", II.vii)
• The Lie Direct by Sara Woods (V.iv)

Coriolanus

• The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger (from "O! a kiss / Long as my exile", V:iii)

Hamlet

• Too, Too Solid Flesh by Nick O'Donohoe (I.ii)
• This Above All by Eric Knight (I.iii)
• 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)
• The Celestial Bed by Irving Wallace (I.v)
• Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick (I.v)
• Murder Most Foul used by several different mystery writers (I.v)
• Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams (I.v)
• How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar (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?'
• "2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut (III.i)
• What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson (III.i)
• Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley and Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang (III.i)
• Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker, Howard Weinstein (Star Trek: The Next Generation novel) and Perforce to Dream by John Wyndham (III.i)
• With a bare bodkin by Cyril Hare (III.i)
• All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman (III.i)
• Single Spies by Alan Bennett (IV.v)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
• Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)

Henry IV, part 1

• Tarry and Be Hanged by Sara Woods (I.ii)
• Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley (V.iv)

Henry V

• So Vile a Sin by Ben Aaronovitch & Kate Orman (II.iv)
• Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (IV.iii)

Julius Caesar

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (from "The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars", I.ii)
• This Little Measure by Sara Woods (III.i)
• The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth (III.i)
• The Evil that Men Do by Nancy Holder++ (III.ii)
• There is a Tide by Agatha Christie (also known as Taken at the Flood) (IV.iii)

King John

• Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (III.iv)
• England Have My Bones by T.H. White (from "Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones", IV.iii)

King Lear

• "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
• The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell (III.v)
• Every Inch a King by Harry Turtledove (IV.vi)
• Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say) by Frederick Buechner (V.iii)

Macbeth

• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (I.iii, etc.)
• The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham (I.iii)
• Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (II.i)
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (II.i)
• Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas (II:ii)
• A Heart So White by Javier Marías (II.ii)
• Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh (III.ii)
• Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles (III.iii)
• 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)
• Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (IV.i)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield (V.v)
• "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut (V.v)
• All My Yesterdays by Cecil Lewis++ (from "all our yesterdays", V.v)
• Brief Candles by Aldous Huxley (from "Out, out, brief candle!", V.v)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (from "it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.", V.v)
• Taste of Fears by Margaret Millar (V.v)
• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean (V.v)

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

• Passing Strange by Catherine Aird (I.iii)
• Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes (II.i)
• Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (III.iii)
• Mortal Engines by Stanisław Lem (III.iii)
• Pomp and Circumstance by Noël Coward++ (III.iii)
• Richer Than All His Tribe by Nicholas Monsarrat (V.ii)

Richard II

• Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (III.ii)
• This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young

Richard III

• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (I.i)
• Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me'' by Javier Marías (V:iii)

Romeo and Juliet

• What's in a Name? by Isaac Asimov (II.ii)
• 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)
• Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie (XCVIII)
• Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess (CXXX)

The Tempest

• Sea Change by Richard Armstrong (I.ii)
• Sea Change by Robert B. Parker
• Sea Change by James Powlik
• Something Rich and Strange by Patricia A. McKillip (I.ii)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
• Brave New Girl by Louisa Luna (from "O brave new world,/ That has such people in't", V.i)
• 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)
• To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King (III.i)