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)
Film
As You Like It:
Under the Greenwood Tree, 1918 film (II.v)
Under the Greenwood Tree, 1929 film
All the World's a Stooge, 1941 short by The Three Stooges (play on “All the world’s a stage...”, II.vii)
Hamlet
Murder Most Foul, 1964 film with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (I.v)
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 20th Century Fox adaptation of Williams novel with Gene Tierney (I.v)
North by Northwest, 1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock (II.ii)
To Be or Not to Be, 1942 film (remade in 1983 by Mel Brooks). (III.i)
Outrageous Fortune, 1987 film written by Leslie Dixon (III.i)
What Dreams May Come, 1998 adaptation of Matheson novel (III.i)
The Undiscovered Country, 1991 Star Trek film (III.i)
Alas! Poor Yorick!, 1913 film starring Fatty Arbuckle (V.i)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990 adaptation of Stoppard play (V.ii)
The Rest Is Silence, 1959 film (V.ii)
The Rest Is Silence, 2007 film
Henry IV, Part 2
Chimes at Midnight, 1965 film by Orson Welles (III.ii)
Julius Caesar
Cry 'Havoc', 1943 MGM film with Margaret Sullavan (III.i)
The Dogs of War, 1980 film (III.iii)
The Evil That Men Do (film) (III.ii)
The Serpent's Egg (film)++ (II.i)
The Ides of March (film)
King John
Twice-Told Tales, 1963 film (III.iv)
Macbeth
Mortal Thoughts, 1991 film (I.v)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1983 film (IV.i)
The Sound and the Fury, 1959 film (V.v)
The Merchant of Venice
The Quality of Mercy (Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen), 1994 Austrian film
The Quality of Mercy 2002 film, starring Mary-Louise Parker
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
Richard II
The Demi-Paradise, 1943 film with Laurence Olivier (II.i)
Richard III
The Winter of Our Discontent, 1983 TV movie of Steinbeck novel. (I.i)
Where Eagles Dare, 1967 film (I.iii)
The Sonnets
Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1971 adaptation of John Herbert's play (XXIX)
The Tempest
Full Fathom Five, 1990 film (I.ii)
Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock (I.ii)
The Winter's Tale:
Fresh Horses, 1988 film by David Anspaugh
Music
Anthony and Cleopatra
Salad Days, album by Adrian Belew
Salad Days, EP by Minor Threat
As You Like It
As You Like It, album by Friedrich Gulda
All the World's a Stage, album by Rush (II.vii)
Hamlet
Infinite Jest, album by We Are The Fury (V.i)
Henry V
Band of Brothers, 2009 album by Only Men Aloud! (IV.iii)
Band of Brothers, 2012 album by Hellyeah (IV.iii)
Julius Caesar
The Dogs of War, song by Pink Floyd (III.i)
Dogs of War, album by Saxon (III.i)
Macbeth
The Moon is Down, album by Further Seems Forever (II.i)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, album by Iced Earth (IV.i)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, album by The Herbaliser
Something Bitchin' This Way Comes, album by Lock Up
Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes, album by SNFU
Something Wicked, album by Nuclear Assault
The Merchant of Venice
The Quality of Mercy, album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
"The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen" album by The Mekons.
"Quality of Mercy", song by Michelle Shocked.
Much Ado About Nothing
Sigh No More, album by Dog Age (II.iii)
Sigh No More, album by Gamma Ray
Sigh No More, album by Mumford and Sons
Othello
The Beast with Two Backs, album by Inkubus Sukkubus (I.i)
Pomp and Circumstance Marches by Edward Elgar++ (III.iii)
Richard III
Now Is The Winter Of Our Discothèque, album by Princess Superstar (parody of "Now is the winter of our discontent...", I.i)
Where Eagles Dare, song by Iron Maiden (I.iii)
Romeo and Juliet
A Rose by Any Other Name, 1975 album by Ronnie Milsap (II.ii)
The Sonnets
...Nothing Like the Sun, album by Sting (CXXX)
The Tempest
Full Fathom Five, album by Clutch (I.ii)
Sea Change, album by Beck (I.ii)
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?' [1]
"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 [2] (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)
Poetry
Hamlet
"Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)
Julius Caesar
"The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot (IV.ii)
King Lear
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
Macbeth
"Out, Out–" by Robert Frost (V.i)
The Tempest
"Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
"Pearls That Were" by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)
Television
Antony and Cleopatra
Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days", episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus
As You Like It
"All the World's a Stage", Ugly Betty episode (II.vii)
Hamlet
Less Than Kind, 2008 television series (I.ii)
"Thine Own Self", 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.iii)
To the Manor Born, 1979–81 television series (a play on "to the manner born", I.iv)
"Remember Me", 1990 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.v)[citation needed]
"The Conscience of the King", 1966 Star Trek episode (II.ii)
"The Paragon of Animals", 1998 Babylon 5 episode (II.ii)
"Perchance to Dream", 1959 The Twilight Zone episode (III.i)
"Perchance to Dean", 2009 The Venture Bros. episode
Slings & Arrows, 2003 Showcase Original Series. (III.i)
Outrageous Fortune, 2005–10 television series (III.i)
"Mortal Coil", 1997 Star Trek: Voyager episode (III.i)
Henry V
"Once More Unto the Breach", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
Band of Brothers, miniseries based on book (IV.iii)
Henry VI, Part 2
The Main Chance, 1969–75 television series (I.i)
Julius Caesar
"Not to Praise Him", The Bill
"The Dogs of War", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
"The Dogs of War", The West Wing Season 5 episode (III.i)
King Lear
"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", Star Trek animated episode (I.iv)
Macbeth
"Dagger of the Mind", Star Trek episode (II.i)
"All Our Yesterdays", Star Trek episode ++ (V.v)
All Our Yesterdays, UK Television historical news programme of the 1960s - 1970s (V.v)
"The Birnam Wood", The West Wing Episode Season 6 (IV.i etc.)
"Something Wicked This Way Comes", Ugly Betty episode
"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", South Park episode
"Something Wicca This Way Comes", Charmed episode
"Something Wicked", Supernatural episode
The Merchant of Venice
"The Quality of Mercy", Babylon 5 episode (IV.i)
"Quality of Mercy", The Outer Limits (I.xiv)
A Quality of Mercy, The Twilight Zone episode (III.xv)
"The Quality of Mercy", Early Edition episode
A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (II.i)
Othello
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (from "The Beast with Two Backs", II.i)
A Beast With Two Backs, 1968 television play by Dennis Potter
"Journey's End" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (V.ii)
"Journey's End", 2008 Doctor Who episode
Richard II
The Hollow Crown, 2012 television adaptation of the Henriad (III.ii)
Richard III
My Kingdom for a Horse, 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean (V.iv)
Romeo and Juliet
"By Any Other Name" (Star Trek episode) (II.ii)
What's in a Name? (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) (II.ii)
The Sonnets
The Darling Buds of May, UK TV comedy based on HE Bates’ novel.++ (XVIII)
A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)
The Tempest
"Sea Change" (Transformers episode) (I.ii)
Other
Antony and Cleopatra
Salad Days (manga)
Hamlet
The Mortal Coil, an Adventures in Odyssey two-part radio episode (III.i)
The King of Shreds and Patches (Interactive Fiction by Jimmy Maher inspired by H.P. Lovecraft) (III.iv)
Henry V
Household Words (magazine) (IV.iii)
Julius Caesar
Dogs of War (comic book series) (III.i)
Dogs of War: Battle on Primus IV (computer game) (III.i)
The Tempest
Full Fathom Five (painting by Jackson Pollock) (I.ii)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (painting by Richard Dadd) (I.ii)