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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2022)

• 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)

• From the title:

  See As You Like It (disambiguation)

• 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
• From "Under the greenwood tree" (II.v):
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872 novel by Thomas Hardy
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1918 film
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, 1929 film adaptation of Hardy's novel
• The Lie Direct, 1983 novel by Sara Woods (V.iv)

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

• 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):
  • To the Manor Born, 1979–1981 television series
• 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):
  • Leave Her to Heaven, 1940 play by John Van Druten
  • Leave Her to Heaven, 1944 novel by Ben Ames Williams
  • Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 film of Williams's novel
• 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)
  • "There Are More Things", 1975 short story by Jorge Luis Borges
  • There Are More Things, 2022 novel by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
  • More Things in Heaven, 1973 novel by John Brunner
• From "The time is out of joint" (I.v):
  • Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
• From "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" (II.ii):
  • Method — Or Madness?, 1957 lecture series by Robert Lewis
  • Method to the Maadness, 2010 album by Kano
  • Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis, 2011 documentary film
• 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):
  • Nutshell, 2016 novel by Ian McEwan
  • Kings of Infinite Space, 1967 novel by Nigel Balchin
  • Kings of Infinite Space, 2004 novel by James Hynes
• 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]
  • North by Northwest, 1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock
• 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)

  • Slings & Arrows, 2003 Showcase Original Series
  • Outrageous Fortune, 1987 film written by Leslie Dixon
  • Outrageous Fortune, 2005–2010 television series. (Every episode of the series also took its title from a Shakespearean quotation.)

  See Perchance to Dream (disambiguation)

  • There's the Rub, 1974 album by Wishbone Ash
  • "There's the Rub", 2002 Gilmore Girls episode

  See What Dreams May Come (disambiguation)

  See Mortal coil (disambiguation)

  • With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare
  • The Undiscovered Country, 1991 Star Trek film
  • No Traveller Returns by John Collier
  • The Name of Action by Graham Greene
  • Be All My Sins Remember'd, 2008 Stargate: Atlantis episode
  • All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman
• From "I was the more deceived" (III.i):
  • The Less Deceived, poem by Philip Larkin
• "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):
  • Alas! Poor Yorick!, 1913 film starring Fatty Arbuckle
  • "Alas, Poor Maling", 1940 short story by Graham Greene
  • Alas Poor Yagan, 1997 editorial cartoon by Dean Alston
• 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):
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1966 play by Tom Stoppard
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990 film adaptation of Stoppard's play
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, 2009 film by Jordan Galland
• Put on By Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)
• Bid the Soldiers Shoot by John Lodwick (V.ii)

• Tarry and Be Hanged by Sara Woods (I.ii)
• I Know a Trick Worth Two of That by Samuel Holt (pseudonym for Donald E. Westlake) (II.i)
• Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley (V.iv)

• 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)

• One Salt Sea, 2011 novel by Seanan McGuire (I.ii)
• So Vile a Sin, 1997 novel by Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman (II.iv)
• From "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" (III.i):
  • "Once More unto the Breach", 1998 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
  • Once More Unto the Breach, 2019 film
  • Unto the Breach, 2006 novel by John Ringo
  • Once More into the Bleach, 1988 album by Debbie Harry and Blondie
• From the St Crispin's Day Speech (IV.iii):
  • Household Words, magazine edited by Charles Dickens
  • We Few, 2005 novel by David Weber and John Ringo
  • We Happy Few, 2016 video game

  See also: Band of Brothers (disambiguation)

• Bring Forth the Body by Simon Raven (II.ii)

• The Main Chance, 1969–1975 television series (I.i)

• Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire (IV.iv)

• From the alternative title:
  • All Is True, 2018 film
• The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin (II.i)
• A Killing Frost by R. D. Wingfield (III.ii)
• The Third Day, The Frost by John Marsden (III.ii)
• Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire (V.v)

• "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):
  • The Fault in Our Stars, 2012 novel by John Green
  • Dear Brutus, 1917 play by J. M. Barrie
• 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):
  • Friends, Voters, Countrymen, 2001 book by Boris Johnson

  See also Lend Me Your Ears (disambiguation)

  • "Not to Praise Him", 2002 episode of The Bill

  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)

• From "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily" (II.ii):

  See Gilded Lily (disambiguation)

• Twice-Told Tales by Charles Dickens (III.iv)
• Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (III.iv)
• Twice-Told Tales, 1963 film (III.iv)
• Twice Told Tales, 2015 album by 10,000 Maniacs
• From "Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones" (IV.iii):
  • England Have My Bones by T. H. White
  • England Keep My Bones, 2011 album by Frank Turner

• Words of Love by Pearl S. Buck (I.i)
• Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire (I.ii)
• If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (I.ii)
• From "How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child" (I.iv):
  • "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", 1974 Star Trek animated episode
  • "The Serpent's Tooth", 2000 My Family episode
• "A Father's Curse" by Honoré de Balzac (I.iv)
• Faces in My Time by Anthony Powell (II.ii)
• From "I am a man / More sinned against than sinning" (III.ii):
  • "More Spinned Against", short story by John Wyndham
• Act of Darkness by Francis King (III.iv.93)
• From "Child Rowland to the dark tower came" (III.iv.195):
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", poem by Robert Browning

  See The Dark Tower (disambiguation)

• The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell (III.v)
• Every Inch a King by Harry Turtledove (IV.vi)
• From "the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight" (IV.vi):
  • The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
• From "I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (IV.vii):
  • The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy by G. Wilson Knight
• Ripeness is All by Eric Linklater (V.ii)
• Full Circle, 1975 novel by Peter Straub (V.iii)
• Full Circle, 1984 novel by Danielle Steel (V.iii)
• Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say) by Frederick Buechner (V.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):
  • To Fear a Painted Devil, 1965 novel by Ruth Rendell
  • A Painted Devil, 1975 novel by Rachel Billington
• 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)
  • "When Birnam Wood" by Larry Niven (chapter from The Integral Trees)
  • "The Birnam Wood", The West Wing Season 6 episode
• 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

• 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)

• From the title:
  • The Merchants of Venus, 1972 novella by Frederik Pohl
  • Merchants of Venus, 1998 film
  • The Serpent of Venice, 2014 book by Christopher Moore
• Villain with a Smiling Cheek, 1948 book by Paul Murray (I.iii)
• From "pound of flesh" (III.iii et passim):

  See Pound of Flesh (disambiguation)

• Perhaps from "All that glisters is not gold" (II.vii):

  See All That Glitters (disambiguation)

• Perhaps from "between you and I" (III.ii):
  • Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English, 2003 book by James Cochrane
  • "Between You & I", 2006 song by Jessica Simpson
  • "Between You & I", 2019 song by Kita Alexander
• From "The quality of mercy is not strained" (IV.i):

  See The Quality of Mercy (disambiguation)

• From "So shines a good deed in a naughty world" (V.i):
  • "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World", 2013 30 Rock episode

• From the title:

  See A Midsummer Night's Dream (disambiguation)

• Ill Met by Moonlight, 1950 book by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)
• Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film adaptation of Moss's book, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
• Ill Met by Moonlight, 1994 film by S. P. Somtow (II.i)
• "Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (II.i)
• Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire (II.ii)
• Bottom's Dream by Arno Schmidt (IV.i)
• A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire (V.i)

• 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)

• 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):
  • Pomp and Circumstance Marches, orchestral marches by Edward Elgar
  • Pomp and Circumstance, novel by Noël Coward
• 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)

• Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer (I.i)

• This Sceptred Isle, 1995 radio series on British history
• The Demi-Paradise, 1943 film with Laurence Olivier (II.i)
• This Happy Breed, 1939 play by Noël Coward (II.i)
• This Happy Breed, 1944 film directed by David Lean, based on Coward's play (II.i)
• This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young (II.i)
• Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (III.ii)
• From "the hollow crown" (III.ii):

  See The Hollow Crown (disambiguation)

• Who Are the Violets Now? by Auberon Waugh (V.ii)

• From "Now is the winter of our discontent" (I.i):

  See Winter of Discontent (disambiguation)

• From "where eagles dare" (I.iii):

  See Where Eagles Dare (disambiguation)

• Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías (V.iii)
• From "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" (V.iv):
  • My Kingdom for a Cook, 1943 film
  • My Kingdom for a Horse, 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean

• An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire (I.i)
• The Strangers All Are Gone by Anthony Powell (I.v)
• Deny Thy Father by Jeff Mariotte (II.ii)
• From "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet" (II.ii):

  See What's in a Name? (disambiguation)

  • "By Any Other Name", 1968 Star Trek episode
  • A Rose by Any Other Name, 1975 album by Ronnie Milsap
• Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (II.ii)
• Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (II.ii)
• "Such Sweet Sorrow", ER episode (II.ii)
• Not So Deep as a Well, poem by Dorothy Parker (III.i)
• Both Your Houses, play by Maxwell Anderson (III.i)
• It Was the Nightingale by Ford Madox Ford (III.v)

• The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates (XVIII)
• The Darling Buds of May, TV comedy based on H. E. Bates's novel (XVIII)
• Summer's Lease by John Mortimer (XVIII)
• From "fortune and men's eyes" (XXIX):
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1967 play by John Herbert
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1971 film adaptation of John Herbert's play
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1987 album by Jennifer Caron Hall
• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (only in English translation; XXX)
• The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford (LX)
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (LXXIII)
• Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie (XCVIII)
• Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge (CVI)
• Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess (CXXX)
• ...Nothing Like the Sun, album by Sting (CXXX)
• A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)
• Too Dear for My Possessing by Pamela Hansford Johnson (CXXXVII)
• No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell (CXLVI)

• 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)

• Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here, album by Anaal Nathrakh (I.ii)
• Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (I.ii)
• From Ariel's Song (I.ii):
  • Come Unto These Yellow Sands, painting by Richard Dadd

  See Full Fathom Five (disambiguation)

  See Sea change (disambiguation)

  • "Pearls That Were", poem by J. H. Prynne
  • Something Rich and Strange, 1994 novel by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock
• From "misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows" (II.ii):

  See Strange bedfellows (disambiguation)

• The Isle Is Full of Noises, play by Derek Walcott (III.ii)
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (IV.i)
• Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of by Robert Bloch (from "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on", IV.i)
• This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (V.i)
• Rough Magic, 1995 film with Russell Crowe and Bridget Fonda (V.i)
• Where the Bee Sucks, poetry anthology by Iolo Aneurin Williams (V.i)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
• Every Third Thought by John Barth (V.i)

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (III.v)
• Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (III.vi)
• Fools of Fortune, 1990 film of William Trevor's novel (III.vi)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (IV.iii)

• Gentle People by Irwin Shaw (V.iii)

• 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)

• Present Laughter, play by Noël Coward (II.iii)
• Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham (II.iii)
• Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (II.iv)
• To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King (III.i)
• Improbable Fiction, play by Alan Ayckbourn (III.iv)

• The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire (II.iii)

• 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)

• The Passionate Pilgrim, 1984 film with Eric Morecambe (from The Passionate Pilgrim, the title of a 16th-century anthology attributed to Shakespeare)
• A Red Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire, from Venus and Adonis

• List of book titles taken from literature