Work Author Literary Reference

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 2 Samuel 19:4

A che punto è la
Carlo
notte
Fruttero and Franco Isaiah 21:11
(literally, "At which
Lucentini
point is the night")
After Many a
Summer Dies the Aldous Huxley Tithonus, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Swan
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
Ah, Wilderness! Eugene O'Neill
trans. Edward FitzGerald
Alien Corn (play) Sidney Howard Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
The Alien Corn (short W. Somerset
Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
story) Maugham
All Passion Spent Vita Sackville-West Samson Agonistes, John Milton
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Humpty Dumpty
Alone on a Wide, The Rime of the Ancient
Michael Morpurgo
Wide Sea Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An Acceptable Time Madeleine L'Engle Psalms 66:13
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley Edward II, Christopher Marlowe
Qur'an 13:18, Arthur John
An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan
Arberry translation
Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw The Aeneid, Virgil
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner The Odyssey, Homer
A Time to Kill John Grisham Ecclesiastes 3:3
Behold the Man Michael Moorcock John 19:5
Beneath the Bleeding Val McDermid East Coker, T. S. Eliot
Beyond the Mexique
Aldous Huxley Bermudas, Andrew Marvell
Bay
Blithe Spirit Noël Coward To a Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blood's a Rover James Ellroy Reveille, A.E. Housman
Blue Remembered A Shropshire Lad, Poem XL, A.E.
Alastair Reynolds
Earth Housman
Blue Remembered A Shropshire Lad, Poem XL, A.E.
Rosemary Sutcliff
Hills Housman
Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan À Peine Défigurée, Paul Éluard
Brandy of the Man and Superman, George Bernard
Colin Wilson
Damned Shaw
Bury My Heart at Dee Brown American Names, Stephen Vincent
Wounded Knee Benét
Butter In a Lordly
Agatha Christie Judges 5:25
Dish
By Grand Central
Station I Sat Down Elizabeth Smart Psalms 137:1
and Wept
The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry
Carroll
Carrion Comfort, Gerard Manley
Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons
Hopkins
A Catskill Eagle Robert B. Parker Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
The Children of Men P. D. James Psalm 90:3
Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers Hebrews 12:1
A Confederacy of Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral
John Kennedy Toole
Dunces and Diverting, Jonathan Swift
Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
Consider the Lilies Iain Crichton Smith Matthew 6:28
Cover Her Face P. D. James The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
The Cricket on the
Charles Dickens Il Penseroso, John Milton
Hearth
The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Mark Haddon Silver Blaze, Arthur Conan Doyle
Night-Time
The Daffodil Sky H. E. Bates Maud, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dance Dance Dance Haruki Murakami Death's Echo, W.H. Auden
A Darkling Plain Philip Reeve Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold
Death Be Not Proud John Gunther Holy Sonnets X, John Donne
The Doors of The Marriage of Heaven and
Aldous Huxley
Perception Hell, William Blake
Down to a Sunless
David Graham Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sea
Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Odes iii 2.13, Horace
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good
Dying of the Light George R. R. Martin
Night, Dylan Thomas
East of Eden John Steinbeck Genesis 4:16
Ego Dominus Tuus William Butler Yeats La Vita Nuova, Dante
Endless Night Agatha Christie Auguries of Innocence, William Blake
Everything is The Unbearable Lightness of
Jonathan Safran Foer
Illuminated Being, Milan Kundera
Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley Samson Agonistes, John Milton
Fair Stood the Wind
H. E. Bates Ballad of Agincourt, Michael Drayton
for France
Fame Is the Spur Howard Spring Lycidas, John Milton
Remorse for Intemperate
A Fanatic Heart Edna O'Brien
Speech, William Butler Yeats
Katharine
The Far-Distant Oxus Hull and Pamela Sohrab and Rustum, Matthew Arnold
Whitlock
A Farewell to Arms (To Queen
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Elizabeth), George Peele
Far From the Elegy Written in a Country
Thomas Hardy
Madding Crowd Churchyard, Thomas Gray
Fear and Trembling Søren Kierkegaard Philippians 2:12
For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman
For Whom the Bell
Ernest Hemingway Meditation XVII, John Donne
Tolls
Elegy to the Memory of an
Frequent Hearses Edmund Crispin
Unfortunate Lady, Alexander Pope
From Here to Eternity James Jones Gentlemen-Rankers, Rudyard Kipling
A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym The Pulley, George Herbert
The Glory and the William Wordsworth, Ode:
William Manchester
Dream Intimations of Immortality
The Golden Apples of The Song of the Wandering Angus, W.
Ray Bradbury
the Sun B. Yeats
The Golden Bowl Henry James Ecclesiastes 12:6
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
regno Cynarae, Ernest Dowson
The Battle Hymn of the
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Republic, Julia Ward Howe
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return
Great Work of Time John Crowley
from Ireland, Andrew Marvell
The Green Bay Tree Louis Bromfield Psalms 37:35
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
The Iliad, Homer (William Cowper's
Have His Carcase Dorothy L. Sayers
translation)
The Heart Is a Lonely
Carson McCullers The Lonely Hunter, William Sharp
Hunter
The Heart Is
JT LeRoy Jeremiah 17:9
Deceitful Above All
Things
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman Paradise Lost, John Milton
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton Ecclesiastes 7:4
How Sleep the Brave H. E. Bates How Sleep the Brave, William Collins
How Sleep the Brave James H. Hunter How Sleep the Brave, William Collins
How Sleep the Brave John Briley How Sleep the Brave, William Collins
I Know Why the
Maya Angelou Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar
Caged Bird Sings
I Sing the Body
Ray Bradbury Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Electric
I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein Psalms 23:4
If I Forget Thee
William Faulkner Psalms 137:5
Jerusalem
If Not Now, When? Primo Levi Pirkei Avot 1:13
In a Dry Season Peter Robinson Gerontion, by T. S. Eliot
In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu I Corinthians 13:12
David Weber & Steve
In Death Ground The Art of War, Sun Tzu
White
In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck Paradise Lost, John Milton
An Instant in the
André Brink The Broken Tower, Hart Crane
Wind
The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol.
It's a Battlefield Graham Greene
6, Alexander William Kinglake
Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Romans 9:13
Dominique
O Jerusalem! Lapierre and Larry Psalms 137:5
Collins
Jesting Pilate Aldous Huxley Of Truth, Francis Bacon
The Last Enemy Richard Hillary I Corinthians 15:26
The Last Temptation Val McDermid Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin Zhuangzi, Book XXIII, paragraph 7
Let Us Now Praise
James Agee Ecclesiasticus 44:1
Famous Men
William Edmund
Lilies of the Field Matthew 6:28
Barrett
This Lime-Tree Bower My
This Lime Tree Bower Conor McPherson
Prison, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Analysis of Beauty, William
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
Hogarth
The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman Song of Songs 2:15
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert
Little Hands Clapping Dan Rhodes
Browning
Look Homeward,
Thomas Wolfe Lycidas, John Milton
Angel
Look to Windward Iain M. Banks The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
The Man Within Graham Greene Religio Medici, Thomas Browne
Many Waters Madeleine L'Engle Song of Songs 8:7
A Many-Splendoured The Kingdom of God, Francis
Han Suyin
Thing Thompson
The Mermaids The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.
Val McDermid
Singing S. Eliot
The Millstone Margaret Drabble Matthew 18:6
The Mirror Crack'd The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord
Agatha Christie
from Side to Side Tennyson
Moab Is My Washpot Stephen Fry Psalms 60:8
The Monkey's The Monkey's Raincoat, Matsuo
Robert Crais
Raincoat Bashō
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against
A Monstrous
Laurie R. King the Monstrous Regiment of
Regiment of Women
Women, John Knox
The Moon by Night Madeleine L'Engle Psalms 121:6
Faust Part One, Johann Wolfgang von
Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut
Goethe
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
The Moving Finger Agatha Christie
trans. Edward FitzGerald
The Moving Toyshop Edmund Crispin The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope
Mr Standfast John Buchan Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
Work Without Hope, Samuel
Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya
Coleridge
The Needle's Eye Margaret Drabble Matthew 19:24
Nine Coaches The Revenger's Tragedy, Cyril
Mary Stewart
Waiting Tourneur
No Country for Old Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler
Cormac McCarthy
Men Yeats
No Highway Nevil Shute The Wanderer, John Masefield
Noli Me Tangere José Rizal John 20:17
No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe The Journey of the Magi, T. S. Eliot
Now Sleeps the H. E. Bates Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Alfred,
Crimson Petal Lord Tennyson
Number the Stars Lois Lowry Psalms 147:4
W. Somerset
Of Human Bondage Ethics, Baruch Spinoza
Maugham
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck To a Mouse, Robert Burns
Home Thoughts From Abroad, Robert
Oh! To be in England H. E. Bates
Browning
The Other Side of
André Brink Middlemarch, George Eliot
Silence
Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those
W. Somerset
The Painted Veil Who Live, sonnet by Percy Bysshe
Maugham
Shelley
Pale Kings and
Robert B. Parker La Belle Dame sans Merci, John Keats
Princes
The Parliament of
Paul Kennedy Locksley Hall, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man
Elegy Written in a Country
Paths of Glory Humphrey Cobb
Churchyard, Thomas Gray
A Passage to India E. M. Forster Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
O Pioneers! Willa Cather Pioneers! O Pioneers!, Walt Whitman
Gates of Damascus, James Elroy
Postern of Fate Agatha Christie
Flecker
Precious Bane Mary Webb Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Proper Study Isaac Asimov An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope
Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz John 13:36 (Vulgate translation)
Recalled to Life Reginald Hill A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Recalled to Life Robert Silverberg A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Marriage of Psyche, Kathleen
Ring of Bright Water Gavin Maxwell
Raine
The Road Less
M. Scott Peck The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
Traveled
A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick I Corinthians 13:12
Shall not Perish William Faulkner Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
The Skull Beneath
P. D. James Whispers of Immortality, T. S. Eliot
the Skin
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower
The Soldier's Art Anthony Powell
Came, Robert Browning
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
Some Buried Caesar Rex Stout
trans. Edward FitzGerald
Specimen Days Michael Cunningham Walt Whitman's prosework
The Stars' Tennis
Stephen Fry The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
Balls
Stranger in a Strange
Robert A. Heinlein Exodus 2:22
Land
Such, Such Were the
George Orwell The Echoing Green, William Blake
Joys
A Summer Bird-Cage Margaret Drabble The White Devil, John Webster
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Ecclesiastes 1:5
Surprised by Joy, William
Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis
Wordsworth
A Swiftly Tilting
Madeleine L'Engle Morning Song of Senlin, Conrad Aiken
Planet
Taming a Sea Horse Robert B. Parker My Last Duchess, Robert Browning
Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
The Battle Hymn of the
Terrible Swift Sword Bruce Catton
Republic, Julia Ward Howe
Do not go gentle into that good
That Good Night NJ Crisp
night, Dylan Thomas
That Hideous
C. S. Lewis Ane Dialog, David Lyndsay
Strength
The Second Coming, William Butler
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Yeats
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald Tiare Tahiti, Rupert Brooke
The Tables Turned, William
Those Barren Leaves Aldous Huxley
Wordsworth
Thrones,
Dorothy L. Sayers Paradise Lost, John Milton
Dominations
Tiger! Tiger! -
alternative title
Alfred Bester The Tyger, William Blake
of The Stars My
Destination
Rudyard Kipling short
Tiger! Tiger! The Tyger, William Blake
story
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor Twelfth night, Louis MacNeice
Time of our Darkness Stephen Gray For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon
Time To Murder And The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.
Lawrence Block
Create S. Eliot
Tirra Lirra by the The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord
Jessica Anderson
River Tennyson
To a God Unknown John Steinbeck Rig Veda Book X
To Sail Beyond the
Robert A. Heinlein Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sunset
To Say Nothing of the Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K.
Connie Willis
Dog Jerome
To Your Scattered
Philip José Farmer Holy Sonnets VIII, John Donne
Bodies Go
The Torment of
Val McDermid The Dry Salvages, T. S. Eliot
Others
Unweaving the
Richard Dawkins Lamia, John Keats
Rainbow
William Makepeace
Vanity Fair The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
Thackeray
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh Philippians 3:21
The Violent Bear It
Flannery O'Connor Matthew 11:12 (Douay translation)
Away
Waiting for the Waiting for the
J.M. Coetzee
Barbarians Barbarians, Constantine P. Cavafy
From Ritual to Romance, Jessie L.
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot
Weston
Joshua 23:14 (as rephrased in
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
Wesley's Notes)
The Way Through the The Way Through the
Colin Dexter
Woods Woods, Rudyard Kipling
The Wealth of
Adam Smith Isaiah 61:6
Nations
What's Become of Waring from Dramatic Lyrics, Robert
Anthony Powell
Waring Browning
When the Green Songs of Innocence and of
H. E. Bates
Woods Laugh Experience, William Blake
Where Angels Fear to
E. M. Forster Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope
Tread
The Second Coming, William Butler
The Widening Gyre Robert B. Parker
Yeats
The Revenger's Tragedy, Cyril
Wildfire at Midnight Mary Stewart
Tourneur
The Wind's Twelve
Ursula Le Guin A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman
Quarters
The Wings of the
Henry James Psalms 55:6
Dove
 The Wife of Bath's Prologue and
The Wives of Bath Susan Swan
Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer
The World, the Flesh Mary Elizabeth
Book of Common Prayer
and the Devil Braddon
The Yellow Meads of Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, Alexander
H. E. Bates
Asphodel Pope

Novels, short stories and nonfictionEdit

A Midsummer Night's Dream
 A Midsummer Night's Gene by Andrew Harman (title)
 Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss (II.i)
 Zettels Traum ("Bottom's Dream") by Arno Schmidt (IV,i)

Antony and Cleopatra

 Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss (II.ii)
 Music Ho! by Constant Lambert (II.v)
 Beds in the East by Anthony Burgess (II.vi)
 Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers (III.xiii)

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

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

Hamlet
 Too, Too Solid Flesh by Nick O'Donohoe (I.ii)
 This Above All by Eric Knight (I.iii)
 Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (I.iv)
 The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton; Edmund Crispin (I.iv)
 There are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges (I.v)
 More Things in Heaven by John Brunner (I.v)
 And Be a Villain by Rex Stout (I.v)
 The Celestial Bed by Irving Wallace (I.v)
 Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick (I.v)
 Murder Most Foul used by several different mystery writers (I.v)
 Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams (I.v)
 Method — Or Madness? by Robert Lewis (II.ii)
 How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar (II.ii)
 How Like a God by Brenda Clough (II.ii)
 Her Privates We by Frederic Manning (II.ii); also published as The Middle Parts of
Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916, referring to the same section of II.ii: 'On
fortune's cap we are not the very button ...Then you live about her waist, or in the
middle of her favours?' [1]
 "2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut (III.i)
 What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson (III.i)
 This Mortal Coil by Cynthia Asquith (III.i)
 Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley and Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang (III.i)
 Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker, Howard Weinstein (Star Trek: The Next
Generation novel) and Perforce to Dream by John Wyndham [2] (III.i)
 With a bare bodkin by Cyril Hare (III.i)
 The Name of Action by Graham Greene (III.i)
 All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman (III.i)
 Single Spies by Alan Bennett (IV.v)
 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (V.i)
 Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (V.ii)

Henry IV, part 1

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

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

Henry VIII
 The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin (II.i)
 A Killing Frost by R. D. Wingfield (III.ii)
 The Third Day, The Frost by John Marsden (III.ii)

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

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

King Lear
 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
 The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell (III.v)
 Every Inch a King by Harry Turtledove (IV.vi)
 If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (I.ii)
 Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say) by Frederick Buechner (V.iii)

Macbeth
 Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (I.iii, etc.)
 The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham (I.iii)
 Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (II.i)
 The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (II.i)
 Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas (II:ii)
 A Heart So White by Javier Marías (II.ii)
 Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh (III.ii)
 Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles (III.iii)
 Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr (IV.i)
 Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble by H. P. Mallory (IV.i)
 A Charm of Powerful Trouble by Joanne Horniman (IV.i)
 By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (IV.i)
 Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (IV.i)
 Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield (V.v)
 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut (V.v)
 All My Yesterdays by Cecil Lewis++ (from "all our yesterdays", V.v)
 Brief Candles by Aldous Huxley (from "Out, out, brief candle!", V.v)
 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (from "it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full
of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.", V.v)
 Taste of Fears by Margaret Millar (V.v)
 The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean (V.v)
 Tutti i nostri ieri (All Our Yesterdays) or A Light for Fools (American title) by Natalia
Ginzburg (V.v)

The Merchant of Venice

 The Quality of Mercy autobiography of Mercedes McCambridge, and others (IV.i)
 "A Pound of Flesh" by Thane Rosenbaum (chapter from Rosenbaum's book The Myth
of Moral Justice)
 The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore

Othello
 Passing Strange by Catherine Aird (I.iii)
 Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes (II.i)
 Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (III.iii)
 Mortal Engines by Stanisław Lem (III.iii)
 Pomp and Circumstance by Noël Coward++ (III.iii)
 Richer Than All His Tribe by Nicholas Monsarrat (V.ii)
 Richard II
 Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (III.ii)
 This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young

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

Romeo and Juliet

 What's in a Name? by Isaac Asimov (II.ii)
 Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (II.ii)

The Sonnets
 The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates++ (XVIII)
 Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge (CVI)
 The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford (LX)
 Summer's Lease by John Mortimer (XVIII)
 Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (only in English translation) (XXX)
 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (LXXIII)
 Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie (XCVIII)
 Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess (CXXX)
 No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell (CXXXXVI)

The Tempest
 Sea Change by Richard Armstrong (I.ii)
 Sea Change by Robert B. Parker
 Sea Change by James Powlik
 Something Rich and Strange by Patricia A. McKillip (I.ii)
 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (IV.i)
 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (V.i)
 This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (V.i)
 Every Third Thought by John Barth (V.i)

Timon of Athens
 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (IV.iii)

Troilus and Cressida

 Alms for Oblivion series of novels by Simon Raven (III.iii)

Twelfth Night
 Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham (II.iii)
 Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (II.iii)
 To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King (III.i)

PoetryEdit
Hamlet
 "Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)
 Julius Caesar
 "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot (IV.ii)

King Lear
 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)

Macbeth
 "Out, Out–" by Robert Frost (V.i)

The Tempest
 "Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
 "Full Fathom Five" by Samuel Menashe (I.ii)
 "Pearls That Were" by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)