Author: William Shakespeare
Cited by
- Anna Jarzab (1)
- IN: Tandem (2013) Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction , American
EPIGRAPH: "Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrus upon them."
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Cheryl Strayed (1)
- IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
EPIGRAPH: "The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack."
FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
- Walter Scott (9)
- IN: Waverly (1814) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Under which King, Bezonian? speak or die!
FROM: Henry IV. part II., (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Pirate (1822) Fiction, Historical Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Nothing in him -
But doth suffer a sea-change.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Redgauntlet (1824) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Master, go on ; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Anne of Geierstein (1829) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What! will the aspiring blood of Lancester
Sink in the ground?
FROM: King Henry VI. Part 3, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Black Dwarf (1816) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hast any philosophy in thee, Shepherd?
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Lady of the Lake (1810) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Nothing in him—— But doth suffer a sea-change.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: . . . . In a rebellion,
When what’s not meet, but what must be, was law,
Then were they chosen, in a better hour,
Let what is meet be said it must be meet,
And throw their power i’ the dust.
FROM: CORIOLANUS., (1623), Play, UK
- Joseph Conrad (2)
- IN: Nostromo (1904) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: So foul a sky clears not without a storm
FROM: King John part II, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Tales of Unrest (1898) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Be it thy course to being giddy minds
With foreign quarrels.
FROM: Henry IV Part 2: Act 4 Scene 3, (1623), Play, UK
- James Fenimore Cooper (2)
- IN: The Last of the Mohicans (1826) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:
The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold:
Say, is my kingdom lost?"
FROM: King Richard, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: The East of the Mohicans (1826) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared;
The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold: --
Say, is my kingdom lost?
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- George Orwell (2)
- IN: Burmese Days (1934) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: This desert inaccessible
Under the shade of melancholy boughs'
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Lev Grossman (2)
- IN: The Magician (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Magicians (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I'll break my staff.
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- David Kirby (1)
- IN: A Wilderness of Monkeys (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Book, UK
- Robert Phillips (1)
- IN: Spinach Days (2000) Poetry, American
EPIGRAPH: My salad days / When I was green in judgement.
FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
- Philip Roth (1)
- IN: Sabbath's Theater (1995) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Prospero: Every third thought shall be my grave
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Ali Smith (2)
- IN: Autumn (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Spring come to you at the farthest,
In the very end of harvest
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Every wink of an eye some new grace will be born.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Stephenie Meyer (2)
- IN: New Moon (2006) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Grace Tiffany (2)
- IN: My Father had a Daughter (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Viola: My father had a daughter lov'd a man / As it might be perhaps, were I a woman, / I should your lordship // Duke: And what's her history? // Viola: A blank...
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Turquoise Ring (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It was my turquoise.
I had if of Leah, when I was a bachelor...
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Jeffrey Archer (1)
- IN: And Thereby Hangs a Tale (2010) Fiction, Short Stories, British
EPIGRAPH: Grumio: First, know my horse is tired, my master and mistress fallen out. / Curtis: How? / Grumio: Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby hangs a tale. / Curtis: Let's ha't, good Grumio.
FROM: The Taming of the Shrew, (1594), Play, UK
- John Berger (1)
- IN: From A to X: A story in Letters (2008) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Love is not time's fool... / Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks / But bears it out even to the edge of doom. // If this be error, and upon me prov'd / I never wit, nor no man ever lov'd.
FROM: Sonnet 116, (1609), Poem, UK
- Anthony Burgess (2)
- IN: Nothing Like the Sun (1965) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, / Coral is far more red than her lips' red, / If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, / If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...
FROM: Sonnet 130, (1609), Poem, UK
- IN: M/F (1971) Fiction, Humorous Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Enter Prine, Leonato, Claudio, and Jacke Wilson
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing (First Folio), (1600), Play, UK
- Wena Poon (1)
- IN: Novillera: Alex y Robert 2 (2013) Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: These our actors were all spirits. The great globe itself shall dissolve, and this insubstantial pageant fade. We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Richard Wright (1)
- IN: The Long Dream (1958) Fiction, Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: The dream's here still: even when I wake it is
Without me, as within me: not imagined
FROM: Cymbeline, (1623), Play, UK
- John Montague (1)
- IN: Smshing the Piano (2001) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief.
FROM: King Lear V, (1608), Play, UK
- Joseph O'Neill (1)
- IN: The Dog (2014) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Simon Reade (1)
- IN: Dear Mr Shakespeare (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: How will this fadge?
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Salman Rushdie (2)
- IN: Joseph Anton: A memoir (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Shalimar the Clown (2005) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A plague on both your houses.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Ann Radcliffe (6)
- IN: A Sicilian Romance (None) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I could a tale unfold
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Romance of the Forest (1791) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Ere the bat hath flown
His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons,
The shard-born beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Sicilian Romance (1792) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I could a Tale unfold
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: A Sicilian (1790) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I could a tale unfold.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Veiled Picture (1802) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I think it is the weakness of mine eyes,
That shapes this monstrous apparition.
It comes upon me!
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Charles Robert Maturin (1)
- IN: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Alive again? Then show me where he is;
I'll give a thousand pounds to look upon him.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- Harriet Martineau (1)
- IN: Life in the Sick-Room (1844) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
EPIGRAPH: For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Roopa Farooki (2)
- IN: Half Life (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind...
For if it see the rudest or the gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night,
The crow or dove, it shapes them to you feature:
Incapable of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue.
FROM: Sonnet CXIII, (1609), Poem, UK
- IN: The Flying Man (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate...
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee...
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
FROM: Sonnet XXIX, (1609), Poem, UK
- Ros Barber (2)
- IN: The Marlowe Papers (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made the poetical.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Marlowe Papers: Novel in Verse (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man once more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Bret Easton Ellis (1)
- IN: Lunar Park (2005) Postmodern literature, Horror fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: From the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past
That youth and observation copied there.
FROM: Hamlet, I:v.98, (1603), Play, UK
- Nadine Gordimer (1)
- IN: My Son's Story (1990) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: You had a Father, let your son say so.
FROM: Sonnet 13, (1609), Poem, UK
- Romesh Guneskera (1)
- IN: Reef (1994) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Of his bones are coral made
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Katherine Mansfield (1)
- IN: Bliss and Other Stories (1920) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ...but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
FROM: Henry IV, Part 1, (1623), play, NULL
- O' Brien, Flann (1)
- IN: The Third Policeman (1967) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Since the affairs of men rest till uncertain, Let's reason with the worse that may befall.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Lola Stvil (1)
- IN: Girls Like Me (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: O! be some other name: What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Holly Schindler (1)
- IN: Spark (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Heng Siok Tian / Phan Ming Yen / Yong Shu Hoong / Yeow Kai Chai (1)
- IN: The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015) Short Stories, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Lily Anderson (1)
- IN: The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them.
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1623), Play, UK
- Cyn Balog (1)
- IN: Unnatural Deeds (2016) Mystery, American
EPIGRAPH: Foul whisp'rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds / To their dead pillows will discharge their secrets.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Ilsa J. Bick (2)
- IN: The Dickens Mirror (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I am not who I am.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Malorie Blackman (1)
- IN: Chasing the Stars (2016) Science Fiction, Young Adult, British
EPIGRAPH: Perdition catch my soul / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not / Chaos is come again.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Jennifer Bosworth (1)
- IN: The Killing Jar (2016) Horror Fiction, Supernatural Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Steve Brezenoff (2)
- IN: Guy In Real Life (2014) Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance, / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, / All purity, all trial, all obeisance,
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Guy in Real Life (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It is to be all made from fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty and observance,
All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all obeisance.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Robin Bridges (2)
- IN: The Form of Things Unknown (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name
FROM: A Midsummer's Night Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Kristi Cook (3)
- IN: Magnolia (2014) Contemporary, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Mimi Cross (1)
- IN: Shining Sea (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
FROM: The Comedy of Errors, (1623), Play, UK
- Keren David (5)
- IN: Cuckoo (2016) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: This above all: to thine own self be true
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- James Dawson (1)
- IN: Cruel Summer (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- De La Cruz, Melissa (1)
- IN: Triple Moon (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her: If she be a traitor,
Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseperable.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Poem, UK
- Trish Doller (1)
- IN: The Devil You Know (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Liz Fichera (1)
- IN: Played (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Gayle Forman (2)
- IN: Just One Year (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When I was at home, I was in a better place:
But travellers must be content.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Just One Day (2013) Fiction, Young Adult, American
EPIGRAPH: All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts…
FROM: "As You Like It", (1623), Play, UK
- Kami Garcia (1)
- IN: Unmarked (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- Elizabeth George (8)
- IN: The Edge of Shadow (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- IN: The Edge of Light (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- IN: The Edge of the Water (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee my daughter who
Art ignorant of what thou art...
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- IN: The Edge of Nowhere (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Be not afeared: the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Edge of the Shadows (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (1991) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Just One Evil Act (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being season’d with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: The Edge of the Light (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Amy Butler Greenfield (1)
- IN: Chantress Alchemy (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You are an alchemist, make gold of that.
FROM: Timon of Athens, (1623), Play, UK
- Sally Green (1)
- IN: Half Bad (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Rosamund Hodge (2)
- IN: Bright Smoke, Gold Fire (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A gloomng peace this morning with it brings,
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Victoria Lamb (1)
- IN: Witchfall (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones.
Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so
That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever
I know when one is dead, and when one lives.
She's dead as earth.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Lois Lowry (1)
- IN: Grosamer (2006) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We are such stuff
As dreams are made on;
and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Gretchen McNeil (2)
- IN: Get Dirty (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: Get Even (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Revenge should have no bounds.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Kerri Maniscalco (1)
- IN: Stalking Jack the Ripper (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Ellie Marney (1)
- IN: Every Word (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Lady, you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- J. Barton Mitchell (2)
- IN: The Severed Tower (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Our doubts are traitors,
And make us loose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Severed Tower (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- Joseph Monninger (1)
- IN: Whippoorwill (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Peter Moore (1)
- IN: V is for Villain (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Sarah Mussi (1)
- IN: Bomb (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Fair foul, and foul is fair.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Erica Orloff (1)
- IN: In Dreams (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
FROM: Henry IV, Part II, (1623), Play, UK
- Siobhan Parkinson (1)
- IN: Heart Shaped (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Beshrew me but I love her heartily;
For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true.
And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true.
Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Gillian Philip (1)
- IN: Bad Faith (2008) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A little water clears us of his deed.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Monique Polak (1)
- IN: So Much It Hurts (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I have a daughter - have while she is mine...
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Rebekah L. Purdy (1)
- IN: The Summer Marked (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Over hill, over dale,
Through bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Through flood, through fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swiftier than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
FROM: A Fairy Song, (1600), Poem, UK
- Alison Rattle (1)
- IN: The Madness (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Paula Marantz Cohen (1)
- IN: Beatrice Bunson's Guide to Romeo and Juliet (2016) Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Brian Crawford (2)
- IN: The Path of Heaven (2017) Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Prisoners of War: The Path to Heaven (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Melissa de la Cruz (1)
- IN: Triple Moon (2015) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I was too young that time to value her, / But now I know here: If she be a traitor, / Why, so am I. We still have slept together, / Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together, / And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, / Still we went coupled and inseparable.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Catherine Doyle (1)
- IN: Vendetta (2015) Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: And where the offence is, let the great ax fall.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Ashley Herring Blake (1)
- IN: Suffer Love (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Agatha Christie (2)
- IN: Taken at the Flood (None) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Sara Shepard (1)
- IN: Toxic (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Maggie Stiefvater (1)
- IN: The Raven King (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;
And all the courses of my life so show
I am not in the roll of common men.
FROM: Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Margaret Stohl (1)
- IN: Icons (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Give sorrow words.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Rebecca Stevens (1)
- IN: Rose in the Blitz (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Melinda Taub (1)
- IN: Still Star-Crossed (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Lea Wait (1)
- IN: Uncertain Glory (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The uncertain glory of an April day...
FROM: Two Gentlemen of Verona, (1623), Play, UK
- Robin Wasserman (12)
- IN: Seven Deadly Sins (2007) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How heavy do I journey on the way
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
"Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend."
FROM: Sonnet 50, (1609), Poem, UK
- IN: Envy (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When Envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
FROM: Henry VI, Part I, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Sloth (2006) Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, American
EPIGRAPH: How heavy do I journey on the way
When what I seek, my weary travel’s end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
“Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend."
FROM: Sonnet 50, (1609), Poem, UK
- IN: Lust (2005) Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, American
EPIGRAPH: This momentary joy breeds months of pain;
This hot desire converts to cold disdain.
FROM: The Rape of Lucrece, (1594), Poem, UK
- IN: Pride (2006) Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, American
EPIGRAPH: He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
FROM: Troilus and Cressida, (1609), Play, UK
- IN: Gluttony (2007) Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, American
EPIGRAPH: They are as sick that surfeit
with too much as they that starve with nothing.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: Wrath (2006) Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, American
EPIGRAPH: … let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Rachel M. Wilson (1)
- IN: Don't Touch (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I am too much i' te sun.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Eva Wiseman (1)
- IN: Another Me (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Michael Gerard Bauer (1)
- IN: Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Robin Benway (1)
- IN: Also Known As (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Perchance you wonder at this show;
But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Paula Garner (1)
- IN: Phantom Limbs (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I greive at greivances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'ver
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
FROM: Sonnet 30, (1609), Poem, UK
- Mia Garcia (2)
- IN: Even if the Sky Falls (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Awake, dear heart, awake!
thou hast slept well; Awake!
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Even the Sky Falls (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Awake, dear heart, awake!
thou hast slept well, Awake!
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Nancy & Viguie, Debbie Holder (2)
- IN: Savage (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Hot Blooded (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Dot Hutchinson (1)
- IN: A Wounded Name (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: And let me speak to th' yet-unknowing world how these things came about. So shall you hear of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and for no cause, and, in this upshot, purposes mistook fallen on th' inventors' heads.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Stacey Jay (1)
- IN: Romeo Redeemed (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: My only love sprung from my only hate ;
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- E. K. Johnston (1)
- IN: Exit, pursued by a bear (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,
so fill'd and so becoming.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Thomas Hardy (2)
- IN: A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: ...Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed
Shall lodge thee.
FROM: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, (1623), Play, UK
- Lord Byron (1)
- IN: Don Juan (1824) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth, too!
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Benjamin Disraeli (1)
- IN: Vivian Grey (1826) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Why the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword shall open.
FROM: The Merry Wives of Windsor, (1602), Play, UK
- Sophia Lee (1)
- IN: The Recess (1797) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Are not these Woods
More free from peril than the envious Court?
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam
The seasons' difference.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Sophie McKenzie (1)
- IN: Defy the Stars (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Matthew Quick (1)
- IN: Forgive me, Leonard Peacock (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I prithee take thy fingers from my throat,
For, though I am not splenitive and rash,
Yet have I in me something dangerous,
Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Cristin Terrill (1)
- IN: All Our Yesterdays (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of accorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Sarah Alderson (1)
- IN: Fated (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- MaryJanice Davidson Alongi and Anthony Alongi, (1)
- IN: Evangelina (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Alan Bradley (2)
- IN: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy wordly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers, come to dust.
FROM: Cymbeline (IV.ii), (1623), Play, UK
- Jeff Abbott (1)
- IN: The First Order (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal, look about you: security gives way to conspiracy
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Mary Hoffman (1)
- IN: City of Swords (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Nancy and Viguié (1)
- IN: Unleashed (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ... And so even when the satirist presents a vision of the future, his business is not prophecy; just as his subject is not tomorrow... it is today
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Linda Barnes (1)
- IN: The Perfect Ghost (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
FROM: Hamlet, Act II scene 2, (1603), Play, UK
- Hannah Beckerman (1)
- IN: The Dead Wife's Handbook (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: We are such stuff
As dreams arre made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Pamela Mingle (2)
- IN: Kissing Shakespeare (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break...
FROM: The Taming of the Shrew, (1594), Play, UK
- Katherine Marsh (1)
- IN: Jepp, who defied the Stars (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Panama Oxridge (1)
- IN: Thyme Running Out (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: But reckoning Time, whose millioned accidents
Creep in twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things.
FROM: Sonnet 115, (1609), Poem, UK
- MacKenzie Bezos (1)
- IN: Traps (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Kerrigan Bryne (1)
- IN: The Hunter (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I Kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- David A. Poulsen (1)
- IN: Old Man (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Michelle Ray (2)
- IN: Falling for Hamlet (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Willy, thy name is sexism.
FROM: Ophelia, Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Leonardo Sciascia (1)
- IN: The Day of the Owl (1961) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: And he that will not fight for such a hope
Go home to bed, and like the owl by day
If he arise, be mocked and wondered at.
FROM: Henry VI, Part III, (1623), Play, UK
- Scott Blackwood (1)
- IN: See how Small (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It shall be called "Bottom's Dream", because it hath no bottom.
FROM: A Midsummer's Night Dream, Bottom, Nick, (1623), Play, UK
- Chris Bohjalian (1)
- IN: The Night Strangers (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Our bodies are our gardensm to which are will are gardeners
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Barbara Taylor Bradford (1)
- IN: Cavendon Hall (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: She is beautiful and therefore to be woo'd,
She is a woman, therefore to be won
FROM: King Henry VI, Part I, (1623), Play, UK
- Zadie Smith (1)
- IN: White Teeth (2000) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH:
What’s past is prologue
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Jeff Crook (2)
- IN: The Sleeping and the Dead (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Amelia Grey (3)
- IN: The Earl Claims a Bride (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart.
FROM: Henry V 4.3.35-36, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Wedding Night with the Earl (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will,--
FROM: Hamlet, act 5, scene 2, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Duke in my Bed (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What’s done cannot be undone.
FROM: Macbeth, act 5, scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
- William Bernhardt (2)
- IN: Death Row (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Rosalind: I’ll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal…
Orlando: Who stays it still withal?
Rosalind: With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term and term, and then they perceive not how time moves.
FROM: As You Like It (III, ii), (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Blind Justice (1992) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice Obscure the show of evil?
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene ii
Prologue, (1600), NULL, UK
- Alison Weir (1)
- IN: A Dangerous Inheritance (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Love is blind
FROM: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, (1623), Play, UK
- Debra Webb (1)
- IN: Rage (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A rage... that nothing can allay, nothing but blood.
FROM: King John, (1623), Play, UK
- Lawrence Block (1)
- IN: The Ehrengraf Settlement (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- P.J Parrish (1)
- IN: Thicker Than Water (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment scribbled o’er should undo a man? Some say, the bee stings: but I say, ’tis the bee’s wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.
FROM: King Henry VI, Part II., (1623), Play, UK
- Dorothy Sayers (1)
- IN: Busman’s Honeymoon (1937) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: That will ask some tears in the true performing of it; if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some measure… I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split… a lover is more condoling.
FROM: A Midsummer-Night’s Dream., (1623), Play, UK
- Jennifer Chiaverini (1)
- IN: Fates and Traitors (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "There is but one mind in all these men,
and it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not
immortal, look about you. Security gives way to
conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee!
Thy lover,
Artemidorus"
Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
And as a suitor will I give him this.
My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live.
IF not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Paul Christopher (1)
- IN: Lost City of the Templars (2013) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Rita Cameron (1)
- IN: Ophelia's Muse (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more...
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmaster'd importunity.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Laura Lippman (1)
- IN: Another Thing to Fall (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- Peter Robinson (2)
- IN: Aftermath (2001) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The evil that men do lives after them.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: All the Colours of Darkness (2008) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart
In complement extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Marcia Talley (6)
- IN: This Enemy Town (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: My birth-place hate I, and my love’s upon
This enemy town. I’ll enter: if he slay me,
He does fair justice; if he give me way,
I’ll do his country service.
FROM: Coriolanus, Act IV, SC.IV, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Unbreathed Memories (2000) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hard-handed men, that work in Athens here,
Which never labour’d in their minds till now;
And now have toil’d their unbreathed memories
With this same play, against your nuptial.
FROM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act 5, Scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Occasion of Revenge (2001) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep,
Till I can find occasion of revenge.
FROM: The Taming of the Shrew
Act 2, Scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Tomorrow's Vengeance (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Methought the souls of all that I had murder’d Came to my tent, and every one did threat Tomorrow’s vengeance…
FROM: Richard III, Act 5, Scene 3, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: Sing It to Her Bones (1998) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;
That were impossible: but, I pray you both,
Possess the people in Messina here
How innocent she died; and if your love
Can labour aught in sad invention,
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
And sing it to her bones…
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing,
Act 5, Scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
- Janet Frame (1)
- IN: Owls Do Cry (1957) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry;
On the bat's back I do fly,
After summer, merrily.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Joe R. Lansdale (2)
- IN: Rumble Tumble (1998) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
FROM: Henry VIII, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Rumble Timble (1998) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
FROM: Henry VIII, (1623), Play, UK
- Elizabeth Bear (4)
- IN: Chill (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
FROM: Henry IV, Part I, Act 3, Scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Grail (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: when the world ended
In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust?
FROM: Hamlet, Act II scene i, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: Hell and Earth (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Touchstone:If thou beest not damn’d for this,
the devil himself will have no shepherds; I cannot see else how
thou shouldst scape.
FROM: As You Like It,Act III, scene ii, (1623), Play, UK
- Ilana Fox (2)
- IN: The Glittering Art of Falling Apart (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What's past is prologue.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Glitering Art of Falling Apart (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What's past is prologue.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Linda Fairstein (3)
- IN: Killer Look (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: The DeadHouse (2001) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Who steals my purse steals trash, But he that filches from me my good name....
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Marina Fiorato (2)
- IN: Beatrice & Benedick (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Here's our own hands against our hearts.
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Beautrice and Benedick (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Here's our own hands against our hearts.
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1600), Play, UK
- R. J. Ellory (1)
- IN: The Devil and the River (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What's past is prologue.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Sarah Fielding (2)
- IN: The Governess; or The Little Female Academy (1749) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Shall we forget the Counsel we have shar'd
The Sifter's Vows, the Hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hafly-footed Time
For parting Us? O! and is all forgot?
All School-Days Friendship, Childhood Innocence.
FROM: Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Shall we forget the counsel we have shar'd,
The sisters vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us? O! and is all forgot?
All school-days friendship, childhood innocence?
FROM: Misummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Susanna Rowson (1)
- IN: Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (1791) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: She was her parents' only Joy:
They had but one -- one darling child.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Meg Donohue (1)
- IN: Every Wild Heart (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We know what we are now, but not what we may become.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Willa Sibert Cather (1)
- IN: A Lost Lady (1923) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ...Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies, Good night, good night.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Kurt Vonnegut (1)
- IN: Slapstick or Lonesome No More! (1976) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Call me but love, and i'll be new baptiz'...
FROM: Romeo, (1597), Play, UK
- Christopher Fowler (2)
- IN: Personal Demons (1998) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Water Room (2004) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A little water clears us of this deed
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- John Crowley (1)
- IN: Beasts (1976) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dullness would torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a breakfast to the wolf… What beast couldst thou be, that were not subject to a beast?
FROM: Timon of Athens, IV, iii, (1623), Play, UK
- Stephen King (1)
- IN: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) Fiction, Fantasy, American
EPIGRAPH: ROMEO : Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow,
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—
JULIET : O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
ROMEO : What shall I swear by?
JULIET : Do not swear at all.
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I’ll believe thee.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Austin Grossman (1)
- IN: You (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For they are actions that a man might play,
But I have that within which passeth show...
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Carla Guelfenbein (1)
- IN: The Rest is Silence (2008) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: So tell him, with the occurents, more and less,
Which have solicited -- the rest is silence.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Kate Hamer (1)
- IN: The Doll Funeral (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ...even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peering.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Elly Griffiths (1)
- IN: Dying Fall (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: That strain again! It had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets
Stealing and giving odour! Enough, no more;
Tis not so sweet now as it was before...
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Lorrie Moore (2)
- IN: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Well run, Thisby.
FROM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Well run, Thisby.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Joseph Finder (1)
- IN: The Zero Hour (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Danielle Steel (2)
- IN: Dangerous Games (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Susanna Kearsley (1)
- IN: Season of Storms (2014) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: And these does she apply for warnings and portents,
And evils imminent...
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Tim Johnston (1)
- IN: Descent (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: What we chang'd
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd
That any did.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Leslie Glass (1)
- IN: Stealing Time (1999) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and, till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted, and no sooner had, Past reason hated as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so: Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme: A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows; yet none knows well. To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
FROM: Sonnet 129, (1609), Poem, UK
- John Lutz (6)
- IN: Flame (1990) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Fear the Night (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For a dark hour or twain.
FROM: Macbeth. Act III. Sc.2. L. 404., (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Night Victims (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: News fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.
FROM: King John, Act V, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Darker than Night (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
FROM: Venus and Adonis, (1593), Poem, UK
- IN: Chill of Night (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
FROM: Titus Andronicus, (1594), Play, UK
- IN: The Ex (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property foredoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings.
FROM: Hamlet Act II Scene 1, (1603), Play, UK
- John Irving (2)
- IN: In One Person (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Thus play I in one person many people,
And none contented.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: Avenue of Mysteries (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Journeys end in lovers meeting.
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Kat Howard (2)
- IN: Roses and Rot (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: More strange than true. I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: An Unkindness of Magicians (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But this rough magic I here abjure ...
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Stephanie Kallos (1)
- IN: Language Arts (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Love, and be silent... I am sure my love's more richer than my tongue.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Alma Katsu (1)
- IN: The Descent (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Jonathan Janz (1)
- IN: House of Skin (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: She will find him by starlight, and her passion ends the play.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- David Morrell (2)
- IN: NightScape (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Creepers (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: …Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Christopher and Lebbon, Tim Golden (1)
- IN: The Chamber of Ten (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;
Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
For that they will not intercept my tale:
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
Receive my tears and seem to weep with me.
FROM: Titus Andronicus, Act 3, Scene 1, (1594), Play, UK
- Lilith Saintcrow (1)
- IN: To Hell and Back (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: empt not a desperate man
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- David Mark (2)
- IN: The Dark Winter (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes...
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: Sorrow Bound (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge, and cease to weep.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- Robert Parker (1)
- IN: Small Vices (1997) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Peter Tremayne (2)
- IN: Fear No More (None) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou the worldly task has done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages…
FROM: Cymbeline Act IV, Scene 2,, (1611), Play, UK
- IN: An Ensuing Evil and Others (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
While night’s black angels to their preys do rouse.
FROM: Macbeth, Act III, Scene ii, (1623), Play, UK
- Tom Savage (1)
- IN: Mrs. John Doe (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: LADY MACDUFF. Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly. Why then, alas,
Do I put up that womanly defence
To say I have done no harm?
[Enter murderers.]
What are these faces?
FIRST MURDERER. Where is your husband?
LADY MACDUFF. I hope, in no place so unsanctified
Where such as thou mayst find him.
FROM: Macbeth (act IV, scene II), (1623), Play, UK
- Rick Mofina (2)
- IN: The Burning Edge (2011) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
FROM: Macbeth, Act iv, Scene iii, (1623), Play, UK
- Ian McEwan (1)
- IN: Nutshell (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space -- were it not that I have bad dreams.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Susan Elia MacNeal (1)
- IN: The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Chang-Rae Lee (1)
- IN: On such a Full Sea (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affaris of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Chloe Niell (2)
- IN: Howling For You (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf. . . .
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Wild Things (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Such as we are made of, such we be.
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Christopher Moore (1)
- IN: The Serpent of Venice (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell and Night must bring this monstrous birth to light.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Kate Mosse (1)
- IN: The Taxidermist's Daughter (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I do remember an apothecary and hereabouts he dwells... and in his needy shop a tortoise is hung, an alligator stuff'd and other skins of ill-shaped fishes.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Catherine Dunn (1)
- IN: Geek Love (1989) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
FROM: Prospero, The Tempest, 5.1.275-6, (1623), Play, UK
- William Nicholson (1)
- IN: Adventures in Modern Marriage (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Desdemona: Dost thou in conscience think -- tell me,
Emilia --
That there be women do abuse their husbands
In such gross knd?
Emilia: There be some such, no question.
Desdemona: Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
Emilia: Why, would not you?
Desdemona: No, by this heavenly light!
Emilia: Nor I neither, by this heavenly light;
I might do't as well i'the dark.
..Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too: and have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Norman Partridge (1)
- IN: Wildest Dreams (1998) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The time has been That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again. With twenty mortal murders on their crown.
FROM: Macbeth Act III, Scene II, (1623), Play, UK
- Ada Palmer (1)
- IN: Seven Surrenders (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say, "It lightens."
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Ben Bova (1)
- IN: Mercury (2005) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state…
FROM: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29), (1609), Poem, UK
- David and Wagner, Karl Drake (1)
- IN: Killer (1985) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart.
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell…
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- Arthur Clarke (1)
- IN: Imperial Earth (1975) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For every man has business and desire.
FROM: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4
Part I. Titan, (1603), Play, UK
- Bethan Roberts (1)
- IN: Mother Island (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Michael Robotham (1)
- IN: Life or Death (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: To be, or not to be: that is the question.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Nicholas Searle (1)
- IN: The Good Liar (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!
FROM: Richard III, (1597), Play, UK
- Anita Shreve (1)
- IN: The Stars Are Fire (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Karl and Drake, David Wagner (1)
- IN: Killer (1985) Children's literature, Speculative fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart.
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell…
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- Matthew Thomas (1)
- IN: We Are Not Ourselves (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Neely Tucker (1)
- IN: The Ways of the Dead (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The evil that men do lives after them.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Connie Willis (1)
- IN: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) Science Fiction, Comedy, American
EPIGRAPH: …a harmless, necessary cat
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Ward Moore (1)
- IN: Bring the Jubilee (1953) Fiction, Alternate history, American
EPIGRAPH: What he will he does, and does so much
That proof is call'd impossibility.
FROM: Troilus and Cressida, (1609), Play, UK
- Van Booy, Simon (1)
- IN: Father's Day (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.
FROM: Sonnet 18, (1609), Poem, UK
- Hanya Yanagihara (1)
- IN: The People in the Trees (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Prospero:
A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
And as with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
Even to roaring.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Hugh Howey (1)
- IN: The Box (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: By my troth, I care not.
A man can die but once.
We owe God a death.
He that dies this year
is quit for the next.
FROM: Henry IV, Part 2, (1623), Play, UK
- Regina Maria Roche (7)
- IN: Nocturnal Visit: A Tale (1801) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
That I would speak to thee."
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Maid of the Hamlet (1833) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Thou hast been As one in suffering all, that suffers nothing: A man who Fortune's buffets and rewards Has ta'en with equal thanks; and blest are they Whose blood and judgment mingled are so well, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger, To sound what stop she pleases.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Monastery of St. Columb: Or, The Atonement (1813) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is spotless reputation: that away, Ilea are bet gilded loam, or painted clay,
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: The Discarded Son; Or, Haunt of the Banditti (1825) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: " When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threat'ning eye."
FROM: King John, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Discarded Son; or, Haunt of the Banditti (1807) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Thou hast been
As one in suffering all, that suffers nothing;
A man who Fortune's buffets and rewards
Has ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are they
Whose blood and judgment mingled are so well,
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger,
To sound what stop she please.
FROM: Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Monastery of St. Columb (1813) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The purest treasure moral times afford,
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Charles Maturin (1)
- IN: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Alive again? Then show me where he is; I'll give a thousand pounds to look upon him.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- Richard Yancey (1)
- IN: The Highly Effective Detective (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Take note, take note, O World.
To be direct and honest is not safe.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Gerard Woodward (1)
- IN: Nourishment (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Uncover, dogs, and lap.
FROM: Timon of Athens, (1623), Play, UK
- Teri Wilson (2)
- IN: Unmasking Juliet (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow
And keep eternal spring-time on thy face.
FROM: Titus Andronicus; Act 3, Scene 1, (1594), Play, UK
- Karen White (2)
- IN: The Beach Trees (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
FROM: Sonnet 64, (1609), Poem, UK
- Bascove (editor) (1)
- IN: Where Books Fall open (2001) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book;
he hath not eat paper as it were; he hath no drunk ink:
his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal,
only sensible in the duller parts.
FROM: Love's Labor Lost, (1598), Play, UK
- Susan Varga (1)
- IN: Headlong (2009) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: There is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?
FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
- Paul Vidich (1)
- IN: An Honorable Man (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: MARC ANTONY:
The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest --
For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men;
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral/
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Brian Hodge (1)
- IN: Prototype (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Gary McMahon (1)
- IN: Silent Voices (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The rest is silence
FROM: Hamlet, Act 5 scene 2, (1603), Play, UK
- Frederic Tuten (1)
- IN: TinTin in the New World (1993) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: 1st Lord: What time o' day is 't, Apetamantus?
Apetamantus: Time to be honest.
FROM: Timon of Athens I. i, (1623), Play, UK
- Dominic Utton (1)
- IN: Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Brad Thor (1)
- IN: Code of Conduct (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you must break the law, do it to seize power.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- Justin Taylor (1)
- IN: Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: So holy and so perfect is my love,
And I in such a poverty of grace,
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. Loose now and then
A scattered smile, and that I'll live upon.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Peter Stamm (1)
- IN: All Days Are Night (2013) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
FROM: Sonnet 43, (1609), Poem, UK
- Richard Lange (2)
- IN: Sweet Nothing (None) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You never washed away
You stained something awful”
“Now, gods, stand up for bastards."
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Sweet Nothing: Stories (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Now, gods, stand up for bastards.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- David Hewson (1)
- IN: Solistice (1999) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence… an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
FROM: King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2, (1608), Play, UK
- Andromeda Romano-Lax (1)
- IN: Behave (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Amelia Opie (3)
- IN: Tales Of The Heart (1820) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: “My grief lies all within; And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul: There lies the substance.”
FROM: Richard II., (1597), Play, UK
- IN: New Tales (1819) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Men pleas'd theirselves, think others will delight In such like circumstance, with such like sport. Their copious stories oftentimes begun End without audience, and are never done.
FROM: Venus and Adonis, (1593), Play, UK
- IN: A Wife's Duty (1847) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: There is no killing like that which kills the heart.
FROM: Aphorisms from Shakespeare, (1812), Book, UK
- Jane Harvey (1)
- IN: Brougham Castle (1816) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I confess it is my nature's plagae To spy into abuse ; and oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Francis Lathom (8)
- IN: The Mysterious Freebooter or The Days Of Queen Bess (1828) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire, With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.
FROM: Richard II., (1597), Play, UK
- IN: The Fatal Vow or St Michaels Monastery (1807) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Oh thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet, That the senses ache at thee—"Wou'd thou hadst ne'er been born I should make very forges of my cheeks, That would to cinders burn up modesty, Did I but speak thy deed!
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- IN: Impenetrable Secret (1831) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: -Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ?
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Unknown (1826) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: hold the world but as the world, A stage, where every man must play his part, And mine a sad one ! "
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: The Fatal Vow (1807) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Oh thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet, That the senses ache at thee—"Wou'd thou hadst ne'er been born I should make very forges of my cheeks, That would to cinders burn up modesty, Did I but speak thy deed!
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- IN: The Mysterious Freebooter; or, the Days of Queen Bess (1828) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Is winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire,
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales
Of woful ages long ago betid.
FROM: Richard II: Act 5, Scene 1, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: The Unknown; or The Northern Gallery (1826) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I'll read you matter deep and dangerous;
As full of peril and advent'rous spirit,
As to o'erwalk, a current, roaring loud,
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
FROM: Henry IV Part 1: Act 1, (1623), Play, UK
- Jane West (1)
- IN: The Refusal (1810) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O, momentary grace of mortal man,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God I
Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks,
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready with every nod to tumble dowm Into the fatal bowels at the deep.
FROM: Richard III, (1597), Play, UK
- Robin Cook (2)
- IN: Harmful Intent (1992) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
FROM: Henry VI, Part II, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Acceptable Risk (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Dean Koontz (3)
- IN: The Voice of the Night (1980) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A faint cold fear thrills through my veins.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: Hideaway (1992) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: O, WHAT MAY MAN WITHIN HIM HIDE,
THOUGH ANGEL ON THE OUTWARD SIDE!
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: What the Night Knows (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Death, the undiscovered country,
From whose bourn no traveler returns …
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Julie Garwood (1)
- IN: Prince Charming (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- Nora Roberts (6)
- IN: Happy Ever After (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Glory in Death (1995) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort.
FROM: King Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Stars of Fortune (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Ceremony in Death (1997) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: Devoted in Death (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: As prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
As salt as wolves in pride.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Poem, UK
- IN: Promises in Death (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A little more than kin,
and less than kind.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Poem, UK
- Michael Prescott (2)
- IN: Stealing Faces (1999) Thriller, Suspense, Crime Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Light thickens,
And the crow makes wing to th’ rooky wood;
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Laurell Hamilton (1)
- IN: Kiss The Dead (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee: no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
– Speaking to the corpse of Desdemona,
and kissing her, Othello dies
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Anthony Quinn (1)
- IN: Half of the Human Race (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Curtis Bill Pepper (1)
- IN: Leonardo (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We are all bastards; all, that most venerable man, which I did call my father was I know not where when I was stamp'd...
FROM: Cymbeline, (1623), Play, UK
- Edmundo Taz Soldan (1)
- IN: Turing's Delirium (2003) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The king hath note of all that they intend,
By interception which they dream not of.
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- Anwar Pasha (1)
- IN: Rifles Bread Women (2008) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: "How can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument."
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- Imogen Parker (1)
- IN: This Little World (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone, set in the silver sea.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Parker Jr., John L. (1)
- IN: Again to Carthage (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In such a night
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love
To come again to Carthage.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Dexter Palmer (1)
- IN: The Dream of Perpetual Motion (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Prospero. -- Dost thou hear?
Miranda. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Brian Panowich (1)
- IN: Bull Mountain (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When the swords flash, let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- O' Reilly, Sally (1)
- IN: Dark Aemilia (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with everyone unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madman's are
At random from the truth, vainly expressed;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
FROM: Sonnet 147, (1609), Poem, UK
- Pola Oloixarac (1)
- IN: Savage Theories (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Ryan North (1)
- IN: Romeo And/Or Juliet (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: A man can die but once.
FROM: Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Adam Nevill (1)
- IN: Lost Girl (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- John Katzenbach (1)
- IN: The Dead Student (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Martin Amis (1)
- IN: The Zone of Interest (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisoned entrails throw:
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights hast thirty-one
Sweltered venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot. .
Fillet of a fenny snake
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing. .
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravined salt sea shark,
Root of hemlock digged i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silvered in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe,
Ditch-delivered by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab. .
Cool it with a baboon’s blood;
Then the charm is firm and good.
I am in blood
Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Len Deighton (1)
- IN: The Ipcress File (1962) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And now I will unclasp a secret book, And to your quick-conceiving discontents, I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous.
FROM: Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Gary Braver (1)
- IN: Elixir (2000) Fiction, Speculative, British
EPIGRAPH: And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Rick Yancey (2)
- IN: The Infinite Sea (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have; for both are infinite.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth scapes i’ the imminent deadly breach…
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Alex Mindt (1)
- IN: male of the species (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Men must endure their going hence, even as they're coming hither.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Jacquelyn Mitchard (2)
- IN: Second Future (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: God has given you one face,
And you make yourself another.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Grief fills up the room of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.
Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I,
I could give better comfort than you do.
FROM: King John, (1623), Play, UK
- Mark Mills (1)
- IN: The Information Officer (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: You have killed a sweet lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you.
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1600), Play, UK
- Charlotte Dacre (1)
- IN: The Libertine (1807) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: If one by one, you wedded all the world, Or from the all that are, took something good To make a perfect woman; she you kill'd Would be unparallel'd.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Joe Meno (1)
- IN: Marvel and a Wonder (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Stephen Hunter (1)
- IN: The 47th samurai (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Turn, hell-hound, turn!
FROM: Macduff in Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Deborah Crombie (1)
- IN: In A Dark House (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Why have you suffer’d me to be imprison’d,
Kept in a dark house…
FROM: The Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Leila Meacham (1)
- IN: Roses (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
Shall send, between the red rose and the white,
A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- Richard Matheson (1)
- IN: What Dreams May Come (1978) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Anna Maria Porter (2)
- IN: Don Sebastian: Or, The House of Braganza (1835) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Take Physic, Pomp! Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, So shalt thou shake the superflux to them, ...And show the Heavens more just. kin
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Don Sebastian; Or The House of Braganza (1838) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Take physic, pomp!
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
So shalt thou shake the superflux to them,
And show the heavens more just.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Valerie Martin (1)
- IN: The Confessions of Howard Day (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: False face must hide what the false heart doth know
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Venssa Manko (1)
- IN: The Invention of Exile (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Marco Malvaldi (1)
- IN: Three-Card Monte (2008) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play , UK
- Michael Gruber (1)
- IN: The Book of Air and Shadows (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Our Revels now are ended: These our actors (As I foretold you) were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre, And like the baselesse fabricke of this vision The Clowd-capt Towres, the gorgeous Pallaces, The solemne Temples, the great Globe it selfe, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial Pageant faded Leave not a racke behinde: we are such stuffe As dreames are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleepe…
FROM: The Tempest, act IV, scene i,
The First Folio, 1623, (1623), Play, UK
- Arthur Hailey (5)
- IN: The Moneychangers (2001) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Strong Medicine (1984) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- G. M. Malliet (1)
- IN: Death and the Lit Chick (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A sad tale's best for winter; I have one
Of sprites and goblins.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Yan Lianke (1)
- IN: Lenin's Kisses (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight,
That ever I was borne to set it right.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Charlie Lovett (1)
- IN: The Bookman's Tale (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: All that glitters is not gold.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Rosamund Lupton (1)
- IN: Sister (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.
FROM: Sonnet 5, (1609), Poem, UK
- Robin Lippincott (1)
- IN: In The Meantime (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- David Lipsky (1)
- IN: The Art Fair (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sell while you can: you are not for all markets
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Robert Littell (1)
- IN: The Mayakovsky Tapes (2016) Fition, American
EPIGRAPH: Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
FROM: Hamelt, (1926), Play, UK
- Jardine Libaire (1)
- IN: White Fur (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Sharon Linnea (1)
- IN: These Violent Delights (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Brian Freeman (1)
- IN: Burying Place (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: O, are you come, Iago? you have done well, That men must lay their murders on your neck.'
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Justin Cronin (1)
- IN: The Passage (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz’d,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate
That Time will come and take my love away.
FROM: Sonnet 64, (1609), Poem, UK
- Danny Tobey (1)
- IN: The Faculty Club (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
FROM: Measure for Measure, Act 2 Scene1, (1623), Play, UK
- Rita Leganski (1)
- IN: The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Silence if the perfectest herald of joy.
FROM: Much Ado about Nothing, (1623), Play, UK
- Anna Barbauld (1)
- IN: Washing-Day (1797) Children, British
EPIGRAPH: ................. and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. --
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- C.S. Harris (1)
- IN: What Darkness Brings (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea; And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades That drag the tragic melancholy night; Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings, Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- Benjamin Wood (1)
- IN: Fort Lafayette: Or, Love and Secession. (1862) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: " A peace is of the nature of a conquest ; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser."
FROM: Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Robert Winder (1)
- IN: The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Time's glory is to calm contending kinds
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
FROM: The Rape of Lucrece, (1594), Poem, UK
- Lis Wiehl (1)
- IN: A Matter of Trust (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
FROM: Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5, (1603), Play, UK
- Phaedra Weldon (1)
- IN: Revenant (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Why, then ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Laura Lam (1)
- IN: False Hearts (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Jon Land (1)
- IN: Strong Rain Falling (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The word to me is like a lasting storm.
FROM: Pericles, (1609), Play, UK
- Juan Gomez-Jurado (1)
- IN: The Traitor's Emblem (2011) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Treason and murder ever kept together
As two yoke-devils sworn to either’s purpose,
Working so grossly in a natural cause
That admiration did not whoop at them:
But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
Wonder to wait on treason and on murder,
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
That wrought upon thee so preposterously
Hath got the voice in hell for excellence...
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- Alex Gray (1)
- IN: Sleep Like The Dead (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Elizabeth Duncan (2)
- IN: Untimley Death (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Howard Linskey (1)
- IN: The Dead (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
but in battalions
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Elanor Dymott (1)
- IN: Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,
Or manage it to part these man with me.
FROM: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Nick Dybek (1)
- IN: When Captain Flint was Still a Good Man (2012) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: How sour sweet music is,
when time is broke, and no proportion kept!
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Eugene Drucker (1)
- IN: The Savior (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How sour sweet music is,
when time is broke, and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men's lives.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Laurie R. King (1)
- IN: To Play the Fool (1995) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: This fellow's wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time;
And like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labour as a wise man's art...
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Kevin P. Keating (1)
- IN: The Natural Order of Things (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And now I will unclasp a secret book,
And to your quick-conceiving discontents
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
As full of perio and adventurous spirit
As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
FROM: King Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Jeanne Kalogridis (1)
- IN: The Burning Times (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Tis the heretic that makes the fire
Not she which burns in't.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Thomas Love Peacock (1)
- IN: Crochet Castle (1831) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Captain Jamy. I wad full fain hear some question 'tween you tway. HENRY
FROM: V., Henry, (1623), Play, UK
- Smith Horace (1)
- IN: Brambletye House; Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads (1826) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Out of my door, you witch ! you hag, you baggage ! you polec!at, you ruunion
FROM: The Merry Wives of Windsor, (1623), Play, UK
- Horace Smith (1)
- IN: Reuben Apsley (1827) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Fie on ambition 1 Fie on myself that have a sword, and yet am ready to famish : These five days have I hid me in these woods, and durst not peep out, for all the country is laid for me.
FROM: Henry VI, (1591), Play, UK
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (4)
- IN: The Anaconda: An East Indian Tale (1813) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: She speaks poniards, and every word flabs.
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: Tales of Wonder (1805) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Black spirits and white,
Blue spirits and grey,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
Ye that mingle may!
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Alfonso, King of Castile (1801) Play, British
EPIGRAPH: For us and for our Tragedy,
Thus stooping to your clemency,
We beg your candid hearing patiently.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright (1809) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The bird is dead, That we have made so much on! I had rather Have skipped from sixteen years of age to sixty, To have turned my leaping tilne into a crutch, Than have seen this!
FROM: Cymbelline, (1623), Play, UK
- Howard Jacobson (1)
- IN: Shylock is My Name (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: PORTIA: Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?
DUKE: Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.
PORTIA: Is your name Shylock?
SHYLOCK: Shylock is my name.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Charles Jackson (1)
- IN: The Lost Weekend (1944) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Jane Isaac (1)
- IN: Before It's Too Late (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And why not death rather than living torment?
FROM: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, (1623), Play, UK
- Anna Katherine Green (1)
- IN: The Leavenworth case (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A deed of dreadful note.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Kerry Greenwood (2)
- IN: Unnatural Habits (2012) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorance of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven,
As would make the angels weep.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Death at Victoria Dock (1992) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A Daniel come to judgement! Yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Linda Grant (1)
- IN: Upstairs at the Party (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I see the play so lies
That I must bear a part
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- R.G Belsky (1)
- IN: The Kennedy Connection (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Death is the great equaliser.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Jason Goodwin (1)
- IN: The Baklava Club (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space -- were it not that I have bad dreams.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Allegra Goodman (1)
- IN: The Cookbook Collector (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I can live no longer by thinking.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Paul Hardisty (1)
- IN: The Evolution of Fear (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Our fears do make us traitors…
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Anton Strout (1)
- IN: Stonecast (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Robert Charles Dallas (1)
- IN: Aubrey (1804) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Sweet are the uses of Adversity.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Daniel Suarez (1)
- IN: Change Agent (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Dorothea Benton Frank (1)
- IN: All Sumer Long (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All that glitters is not gold,
Often you have heart it told:
Many a man his life has sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgement old,
Your answer had not been in'scroll'd
Fare you well: your suit is cold. Cold, indeed, and labour lost:
Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Jonathan Franzen (1)
- IN: Freedom (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Go together,
You precious winners all, your exultation
Partake to everyone. I, an old turtle,
Will wing me to some withered bough, and there
My mate, that's never to be found again,
Lament till I am lost.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Gaelen Foley (1)
- IN: Lord of Fire (2001) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Something wicked this way comes.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- J. Lincoln Fenn (1)
- IN: Dead Souls (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Lin Enger (1)
- IN: Undiscovered Country (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns, --
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Vicki Delany (1)
- IN: Under Cold Stone (2014) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleepng got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- de la Cruz, Melissa (1)
- IN: Witches of East End (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the burlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won...
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Maureen Jennings (6)
- IN: Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom is Cold (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Gloucester: Our flesh and blood, my lord,
is grown so wild
That it doth hate what gets it.
Edgar: [pretending to be a lunatic]
Poor Tom's a cold
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Murdoch Mysteries: Let Loose the Dogs (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc", and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth...
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Murdoch Mysteries: Vices of My Blood (2006) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ... as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood,
so justly to your grave ears I'll present
How did thrive in this fair lady's love
And she mind
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- IN: Let Darkness Bury the Dead (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: On being informed of the death of his son, Harry Percy, Northumberland goes into a frenzy, vowing to unleash terrible rage upon the perpetrators. He says:
But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,
And darkness be the burier of the dead.
FROM: Henry IV, Part 2, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Night's Child (2005) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ". . . He is but Night's child."
(said of Tarquin, who has ravished Lucrece)
FROM: The Rape of Lucrece, (1594), Poem, UK
- IN: Under the Dragon's Tail (1998) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- James Elliott (1)
- IN: Legend Has It (2017) Fantasy, American
EPIGRAPH: Remember
First to possess his books, for without them Hes but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
One spirit to command: they all do hate him
As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- K.W. Jeter (1)
- IN: Noir (1998) Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You take my life
When you do take the means
whereby I live.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice (1597),
Act IV, Scene I, (1600), Play, UK
- Anne Fortier (1)
- IN: Juliet (2010) Romance novel, Historical Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished,
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Brian Freemantle (2)
- IN: The Lost American (1984) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, British
EPIGRAPH: I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: See Charlie Run (1987) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, British
EPIGRAPH: His flight was madness; when our actions do not
Our fears do make us traitors.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Catharine Maria Sedwick (1)
- IN: The Boy of Mount Rhigi (1848) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One touch of nature Makes the whole world kin.
FROM: Troilus and Cressida, (1609), Play, UK
- Sarah Creech (1)
- IN: The Whole Way Home (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The course of true love never did run smooth.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Ted Bell (1)
- IN: Assassin (2004) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adventure fiction, Nautical fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Cry “Havoc!”…and let slip the dogs of war.
FROM: JULIUS CAESAR, ACT III, SCENE I, (1623), Play, UK
- Scott Turow (2)
- IN: Identical (2013) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Fiction, Legal Story, American
EPIGRAPH: I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
FROM: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Limitations (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
FROM: Pericles, (1609), Play, UK
- Eve Chase (1)
- IN: The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine...
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Philip Caputo (1)
- IN: Some Rise by Sin (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall;
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
And some condemned for a fault alone.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- Paul Doiron (1)
- IN: Trespasser (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be split.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), NULL, UK
- Ivan Doig (1)
- IN: Sweet Thunder (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear
With hounds of Sparta... I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- K. O. Dahl (1)
- IN: The Man in the Window (2008) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Is this a dagger, which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: --
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling, as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Jon Stock (1)
- IN: Dead Spy Running (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
FROM: Sonnet 138, (1609), Poem, UK
- James Swallow (1)
- IN: Star Trek the Fall: The Poisoned Chalice (2013) Science Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: But in these cases
We still have judgement here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd
chalice
To our own lips.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Eleanor Brown (1)
- IN: The Weird Sisters (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Kate Collins (1)
- IN: A Root Awakening (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!"
FROM: Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2, (1623), Play, UK
- Brunonia Barry (1)
- IN: The Fifth Petal (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Catherine Coulter (4)
- IN: Nemesis (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: To sleep, perchance to dream...
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: Midsummer Magic (1987) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The story shall the good man teach his son.
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Moonspun Magic (1907) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A harmless necessary cat.
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: The Rebel Bride (1979) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Thus in plain terms; your father hath consented
That you shall be my wife…
And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Now, Kate, I am husband for your turn;
For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,
Thou must be married to no man but me…
FROM: The Taming of the Shrew, (1594), NULL, UK
- Christopher Scotton (1)
- IN: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sweet are the uses of adversity,
which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
I would not change it.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Harriet Lee (1)
- IN: The Errors of Innocence (1786) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "For tho' I will not practice to deceive, "Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn,"
FROM: King John, (1623), Play, UK
- Von Chamisso, Adelbert (1)
- IN: Peter Schlemihl (1861) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
FROM: Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio, (1603), Play, UK
- James Ridley (1)
- IN: The History of James Lovegrove (Vol. 2) (1761) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And you shall see ’tis purchased by the weight,
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it.
FROM: Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- L. Sayers, Dorothy (2)
- IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "Nobody; I myself; farewell."
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- S.K. Aizer (2)
- IN: The Wind (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: "Shall I come thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely, and more temperate"
FROM: Sonnet 18, (1609), Poem, UK
- James White (1)
- IN: All Judgement Fled (1968) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O Judgement thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- William Henry Ireland (1)
- IN: The Abbess (1799) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Let modest Matrons at thy mention start,
And blushing Virgins, when they read our annals,
Skip o'er the guilty page.
FROM: Troilus and Cressida, (1609), Play, UK
- Willa Cather (1)
- IN: A Lost Lady (1923) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “……… Come, my coach!
Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies,
Good night, good night.”
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Matt Haig (1)
- IN: The Last Family in England (2004) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it
FROM: Henry IV Part 1, (1598), Play, UK
- William Ernest Henley (1)
- IN: For England's Sake (1900) Poetry, British
EPIGRAPH: This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Marie-Henri Beyle (3)
- IN: The Red and the Black (1830) Psychological Fiction, French
EPIGRAPH: Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, For such as we are made of, such we be.
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- Sue Hubbard (1)
- IN: Rainsongs (2018) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What's past help, should be past grief.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), NULL, UK
- William Godwin (1)
- IN: Mandeville (1817) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: From either host
The clink of hammers, closing rivets up,
Gives dreadful note of preparation.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Ethel Turner (1)
- IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
EPIGRAPH: What's done cannot be undone ; to bed, to bed, to bed.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Alice Caldwell Hegan (3)
- IN: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: Tis one thing to be tempted,
Another thing to fall.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- Victoria Cross (1)
- IN: Anna Lombard (1901) Novel, British
EPIGRAPH: Verona's summer hath not such a flower.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Beatrix Potter (1)
- IN: The Tailor of Gloucester (1903) Children, British
EPIGRAPH: "I'll be at charges for a looking-glass, and entertain a score or two of tailors"
FROM: Richard III, (1597), Play, UK
- Primo Levi (1)
- IN: The Monkey's Wrench (1978) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ...though this knave came somewhat saucily into the world... there was good sport at his making.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Beryl Markham (1)
- IN: West with the Night (1942) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I speak of Africa and golden joys
FROM: Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Alfred Austin (1)
- IN: A Tale of True Love and Other Poems (1902) Poetry, British
EPIGRAPH: Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
FROM: Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1., Scene 1., (1600), Play, UK
- Rosa Praed (1)
- IN: The Insane Root (1902) Novel, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Or have we eaten of the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Feist Raymond (1)
- IN: Magician: Master (1993) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We were, fair queen,
Two lads that thought there was no more behind
But such a day to-morrow as to-day,
And to be boy eternal.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Jennifer Lee Carrell (2)
- IN: Interred With Their Bones (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones....
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Shakespeare Curse (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
"Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But eill they come when you do call for them?"
FROM: King Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Herman Melville (2)
- IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Very like a whale.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- W. H. Ireland (1)
- IN: Gondez, The Monk (1800) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Colin Cheong (1)
- IN: The Stolen Child (1989) Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;
She never had so sweet a changeling;
And jealous Oberon would have the child
Knight of his train, to trace the forest wild;
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Nicci French (1)
- IN: Sunday Morning Coming Down (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Glendower. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur. Why, so can I, or can any man,
But will the come when you do call for them?
FROM: Henry IV Part One (Act III, Scene I), (1623), Play, UK
- Janette Turner Hospital (1)
- IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Hamlet (to the ghost of his father):
Well said, old mole! cans't work in the earth so fast?
FROM: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V, (1603), Play, UK
- Lucy Hounsom (1)
- IN: Heartland (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: My stars shine darkly over me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
- John Hornor Jacobs (1)
- IN: The Twelve-Fingered Boy (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Sharon Bolton (1)
- IN: The Craftsman (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I have supped full with horrors.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Paula Byrne (1)
- IN: Look to Your Wife (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.
FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
- Allison Pataki (1)
- IN: The Accidental Empress (2015) Historical Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “So quick: bright things come to confusion.”
FROM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Samantha King (1)
- IN: The Choice (2017) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, British
EPIGRAPH: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Wilbur Smith (1)
- IN: The Angels Weep (1982) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: But man, proud man,
Dress'd in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
- Richard Adams (1)
- IN: The Plague Dogs (1977) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: QUEEN: I will try the forces
Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
We count not worth the hanging, but none human...
CORNELIUS: Your Highness
Shall from this practice but make hard your heart.
FROM: Cymbeline, (1611), Play, UK
- Tim Powers (2)
- IN: Earthquake Weather (1997) Fantasy, American
EPIGRAPH: My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul,
My soul the father, and these two beget
A generation of still-breeding thoughts;
And these same thoughts people this little world,
In humors like the people of this world…
Thus play I in one person many people,
And none contented…
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- T. C. Boyle (2)
- IN: A Bird in Hand (1985) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: No, jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Inner Circle (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
lilies in our brows' bent...
FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
- Paul Bowles (1)
- IN: Let it Come Down (1952) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: BANQUO: It will be Rayne to Night.
1st MURDERER: Let it come downe.
(They set upon Banquo.)
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Francesca Brill (1)
- IN: The Harbour (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I saw his heart in his face.
FROM: "The Winter's Tale", (1623), Play, UK
- Christine Poulson (1)
- IN: Deep Water (2016) Thriller, British
EPIGRAPH: “Precious friend hid in death’s dateless night"
FROM: Sonnet 30, (1609), Poem, UK
- Conn Iggulden (4)
- IN: Wars of the Roses Ravenspur (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: We will unite the white rose and the red.
FROM: Richard III, (1597), Play, UK
- IN: Wars of the Roses Stormbird (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
- M. K. Hume (1)
- IN: Battle of Kings (2011) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?
Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests?
Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?
Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts?
Or kings be breakers of their own behests?
But no perfection is so absolute
That some impurity doth not pollute.
FROM: The Rape of Lucrece, (1594), Poem, UK
- Amanda Craig (1)
- IN: Love in Idleness (2003) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell,
It fell upon a little western flow'r
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Thomas M. Disch (1)
- IN: The Prisoner (1967) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world.
FROM: Richard II, (1597), Play, UK
- Gordon Ferris (1)
- IN: Gallowglass (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The merciless Macdonald,
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villainies of nature
Do swarm upon him, from the Western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Jim Fergus (1)
- IN: One Thousand White Women (1988) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Women will love her, that she is a woman
More worth than any man; men that she is
The rarest of all women.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Esther Freud (1)
- IN: Lucky Break (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hamlet's advice to the players.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Aimee Friedman (1)
- IN: Sea Change (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Nancy (novelization) Holder (1)
- IN: Crimson Peak (official movie novelisation) (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Stefan Petrucha (1)
- IN: Spider-Man: Forever Young (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth;
And ere a man hath power to say “Behold!”
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
FROM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (1595), Play, UK
- Elizabeth Jenkins (1)
- IN: The Tortoise and the Hare (1954) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Emilia: O, who hath done this deed?
Desdemona: Nobody; I myself. Farewell.
FROM: Othello, Act V, Sc. II, (1622), Play, UK
- Laurie Gray (1)
- IN: Maybe I Will (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Juan Goytisolo (1)
- IN: Makbara (1979) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: all this the world well knowes
yet none knowes well,
to shun the heaven that leads men
to this hell.
FROM: Sonnet 129, (1609), Poem, UK
- Louise Penny (1)
- IN: A Great Reckoning (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: It strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
FROM: "As You Like It", (1623), Play, UK
- Ruth Rendell (1)
- IN: Put On By Cunning (1981) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: So shall you hear...
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause;
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th'inventors' heads -- all this can I Truly deliver.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Hagan Lee, Rebecca (1)
- IN: A Wanted Man (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub."
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Kathy Lette (1)
- IN: Nip'n'Tuck (2001) Humour, Australian
EPIGRAPH: ‘God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.’
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Craig Johnson (2)
- IN: A Serpent's Tooth (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
FROM: King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Any Other Name (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, (1597), Play, UK
- Gillian Slovo (1)
- IN: Red Dust (2000) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Is not the truth the truth?
FROM: Henry IV, (1623), Play, UK
- Cath Weeks (1)
- IN: Blind (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is a winged Cupid painted blind.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Marjorie Liu (1)
- IN: Soul Song (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange…
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Allen Zadoff (1)
- IN: My Life, The Theater, and Other Tragedies (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Are you sure
That we are awake?
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Jennifer Ziegler (1)
- IN: How NOT to be Popular (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Fair is foul and foul is fair...
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Yasmine Galenorn (2)
- IN: Darkness Raging (2016) Fantasy, American
EPIGRAPH: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- IN: Shadow Rising (2012) Fantasy, American
EPIGRAPH: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Sue Townsend (3)
- IN: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- IN: The Queen and I (1992) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Now, when thou wak'st, with thine
own fool's eyes peek
FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Tony Tulathimutte (1)
- IN: Private Citizens (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In respect that is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life.
FROM: Touchstone, As You Like It, act 3, scene 2, (1623), Play, UK
- John Updike (1)
- IN: The Widows of Eastwick (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And then (they say) no Spirit can walke abroad,
The nights are wholsome, then no Planets strike,
No Fairey talkes, nor Witch hath power to Charme:
So hallow'd, and so gracious in the time.
FROM: Hamlet, Act I, Scene I, (1603), Play, UK
- Ken Kalfus (1)
- IN: Coup de Foudre (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
- Catherine Lim (1)
- IN: The Howling Silence (1999) Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Jessie Keane (1)
- IN: Lawless (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.'
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- Mark Twain (1)
- IN: The Prince and the Pauper (1881) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The quality of mercy...
is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: becomes
The thronèd monarch better than his crown.
FROM: Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Gail Jones (4)
- IN: Sorry (2007) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: LADY MACBETH: Your face, my thane,
Is as a book where men
May read strange matters.
To beguile the time,
Look like the time . . .
FROM: Macbeth, I, (1623), Play, UK
- John Mortimer (4)
- IN: Quite Honestly (2005) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
FROM: King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: And the Primrose Path (2002) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I had though to have let in
some of all professions that go the primrose
way to the everlasting bonfire.
FROM: Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: Summer's Lease (1988) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And summer's lease hath all too short a date
FROM: Sonnet XVIII, (1609), Poem, UK
- Giovanni Orelli (1)
- IN: Walaschek's Dream (1991) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: But Pardon, gentles all,
The flat unraisèd spirits that hath dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object. Can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O pardon: since a crookèd figure may
Attest in little place a million,
And let us, ciphers to this great account,
On your imaginary forces work.
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- Jasper Kent (1)
- IN: The Last Rite (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
FROM: Julius Caesar, Act II, scene ii, (1623), Play, UK
- George Gordon (1)
- IN: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire (1809) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew!
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers
FROM: Henry IV, Act 3 Scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
- Bobbie Ann Mason (1)
- IN: An Atomic Romance (2005) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men's noses as they lie asleep.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet I. iv, (1597), Play, UK
- Flora Ann Steel (1)
- IN: The Hosts of the Lord (1900) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ***Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.
FROM: Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Much Ado About Nothing, (None), Play, UK
- Robert Bryndza (1)
- IN: The Night Stalker (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Mary Yonge, Charlotte (1)
- IN: The Armourer's Prentices (1898) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: "Give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament,
with that I will go buy me fortunes."
"Get you with him, you old dog."
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- J. Meade Falkner (1)
- IN: Moonfleet (1898) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: We thought there was no more behind
But such a day tomorrow as today
And to be a boy eternal.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Sarah Grand (1)
- IN: The Beth Book (1897) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: IAGO. Come, hold your peace.
EMILIA. 'Twill out, 'twill out:—I hold my peace, Sir? no;
I'll be in speaking, liberal as the air:
Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- E. Nesbit (1)
- IN: The Children's Shakespeare (1897) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: He climbed the rope-ladder among the flowers.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Fionnuala Kearney (2)
- IN: You, Me, and Other People (2015) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: though those that are betray'd
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe . . .
FROM: Cymbeline, (1611), Play, UK
- Dolores Redondo (1)
- IN: The Legacy of the Bones (2013) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Has this fellow no feeling of his business?
He sings at grave-making.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Mark Hill (1)
- IN: Two O'Clock Boy (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Helen H. Gardener (2)
- IN: Is This Your Son, My Lord? (1891) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The shame itself doth call for Instant remedy.
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- Lewis Carroll (1)
- IN: A Tangled Tale (1885) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "Goblin, lead them up and down."
FROM: Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
- Washington Irving (1)
- IN: The Inn Kitchen (1819) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
EPIGRAPH: Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?
FROM: Falstaff, from Henry IV, (1598), Play, UK
- Abbott Abbott, Edwin (1)
- IN: Flatland (1884) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: "Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Mrs. Oliphant (1)
- IN: The Ladies Lindores (1884) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "Two of the sweet'st companions in the world."
FROM: Cymbeline, (1623), Play, UK
- Walter Besant (1)
- IN: The Monks of Thelema (1878) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love."
FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1623), Play, UK
- Anna Katharine Green (1)
- IN: The Leavenworth Case (1878) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A deed of dreadful note.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Charlotte M. Yonge (1)
- IN: The Three Brides (1876) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: There is sure another Flood toward, that so many couples are coming to the Ark.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Mercy Warren (1)
- IN: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Interpreted with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations (1805) Historical Account, American
EPIGRAPH: O God! Thy arm was here………
And not to us but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all.
FROM: King Henry IV, (1623), NULL, UK
- Bayard Taylor (1)
- IN: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (1870) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The better angel is a man right fair;
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
FROM: Sonnets, (1609), Poem, UK
- R. D. Blackmore (1)
- IN: Cradock Nowell (1866) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: You have said: whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.
FROM: As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2., (1623), Play, UK
- Louisa Sidney Stanhope (1)
- IN: The Confessional of Valombre (1812) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Oh, such a deed
As from the body of contraction placks
The very soul; and sweet religion snakes
A rhapsody of words!
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Maria Louise Ramé (1)
- IN: Held in Bondage; or Granville de Vigne (1863) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: A young man married is a man that's marred.
FROM: All's Well That Ends Well, (1623), Play, UK
- John Galsworthy (3)
- IN: The Island Pharisees (1904) Novel, British
EPIGRAPH: But this is a worshipful society
FROM: King John, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Man of Property (1906) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: You will answer
The slaves are ours.
FROM: Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: The Forsyte Saga (1922) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: ... You will answer
The slaves are ours ...
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- Henry Watson Fowler (1)
- IN: The King's English (1906) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: No levell'd malice
Infects one comma in the course I hold.
FROM: Timon of Athens, I, i. 48, (1623), Play, UK
- Harold Bell Wright (1)
- IN: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: That all with one consent praise new-born gawds,
Tho they are made and moulded of things past,
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
FROM: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. ACT 3; SC. 3., (1609), Play, UK
- J. Bayard Taylor (1)
- IN: Views A-Foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff (1890) Non-Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a;
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
- NULL (1)
- IN: The Spectre of the Mountain of Grenada: A Romance, Volume II. (1811) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Be thou a Spirit of Health, or Goblin damn'd;
Bring with thee airs from Heav'n, or blasts from Hell
Be thy intent wicked or charitable, —
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
That I will speak to thee.
FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
- Edward Nares (1)
- IN: I'll Consider Of It!: A Tale, In Three Volumes, In Which "Thinks I To Myself" Is Partially Considered., Volume I. (1812) Book, British
EPIGRAPH: Consider it not too deeply.
FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
- Elizabeth Thomas (4)
- IN: Monte Video: or, The officer's wife and her sister: a novel (1809) Book, British
EPIGRAPH: Shew me a mistress passing fair;
What doth her beauty serve, but as a note,
Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget.
FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
- Maximilian Prokop von Freyberg (1)
- IN: Die stauffer von ehrenfels: theils geschichte theils roman (1827) Non-Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: Run ift die Sugend Englands gang in Gluth lind feib’ne Bublfdhaft liegt tm Kleiderfdrank Die Waffenfdmiede jet gedcibe — dex Chre Gedanke herrfdjt allein in aller Brufé Sie geben um bad Pferd die Weide feil Denn jeso fist Erwartung in der Luft Und birgt cin Schwert, vom Griff bis an die Spise Mit KaiferEronen — Herrn und Grafenkronen Heinrich und feinen Sreuen zugefagt. O England! Vorbild deiner innern Grofe
Gleid) einem Feinen Leib, mit madtigem Herzen, Was Eonnteft bu nidt thun — was Ehre will War’ jedes deiner Kinder gut und ade!
FROM: Henry V, (1623), Play, UK
- John Brown (1)
- IN: Sixty years' gleanings from life's harvest: a genuine autobiography (1858) Book, NULL
EPIGRAPH: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
- Thomas Randolph (1)
- IN: The muses looking-glass; (or, The Stage Re-View'd.) A comedy. Written by the Incomparable Mr. Thomas Randolph; and now revis'd, and corrected from the many errors of former editions. With a prefatory epistle to Mr. Collier. (1706) Play, British
EPIGRAPH: Totus Mundus agit Histrionem.
FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK