History ReferencedBy / WilliamShakespeare

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* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' by Creator/MichaelEnde quotes the ''Twelfth Night'' song that begins:

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]", Shakespeare's lost play, ''Love's Labours Won'', turns out to have been influenced by a trio of aliens to [[LiteraryWorkOfMagic serve as a summoning ritual]] for their species.

* ''Literature/ThankYouJeeves'' has Bertie trying to quote the "patience on a monument" speech, only to break down when he gets to the word "damask", which Jeeves both supplies and defines.

* In ''Film/LittleWomen2019'', Professor Bhaer goes to a performance of the play, and he notices Jo watching from the nosebleed seats.

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-->'''Penguin:''' "And lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds". Shakespeare's Sonnet 94, don't you just love that Bard?
-->'''Batman:''' Not when he's quoted by a ham like you, Cobblepot.
-->'''Penguin:''' ''Ham?'' I'll have you know I studied Shakespeare at - ''(Cut off as Batman belts him.)''

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* Fanfic ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'' has bucketloads and bucketloads of Shakespeare's quotes, puns and allusions. The title itself refers to two Shakespeare's plays and Archie quotes so many of Shakespeare's plays and poems which he knows by heart. Several sonnets appear in full. Horatio and Archie go to a bookseller's and read lines. Horatio buys a copy of sonnets as an apology gift for Archie. Basically this fic is one large appreciation of the Bard's genius and especially Archie's love for his work. And also the fandom's appreciation of this character trait of Archie's. He paraphrases Shakespeare in canon, too, but in fandom he's a major bookworm, major theatre geek and Shakespeare's most devoted admirer. This fic runs with that idea.

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* Quite a lot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''. The poster in the old ladies' apartment reads [[ParallelPornTitles "King Leer"]]. The boy in the uniforms store yelled "My kingdom for a horse!". Several lines from ''Hamlet'' were quoted during the theater scene. And to top it off, Oregon natives will recognize the city the titular character's family moved to as Ashland, Oregon, where the Shakespeare Festival is held annually.

* In ''Film/JesusOfMontreal'', Rene, while narrating a documentary on outer space, quotes "the winter of our discontent" speech from ''Theatre/RichardIII'', and then later, while playing Pilate in the passion play he helps put on, quotes from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', specifically the "To be or not to be" speech.
* In one of the nightmare sequences in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', Nancy's class is analyzing ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''. After Nancy starts seeing a corpse talk to her, one of the students quotes a line from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'':

** The original series had a lot of Shakespearean references, particularly to ''Theatre/RichardIII'', given its AlternateHistory premise in which far from being killed, one of the "Princes in the Tower" grew up to be Richard IV, a psychotic BoisterousBruiser (BRIANBLESSED). The end credits even list "Additional dialogue -- Creator/WilliamShakespeare".
*** In more detail: [[Recap/BlackadderS1E1TheForetelling the first episode]] was basically the last act of ''Richard III'' crossed with ''Macbeth'', complete with three witches whose names in the shooting script are those of the princesses from ''Theatre/KingLear''. Some of the more grandiose characters quote directly from ''Theatre/HenryV'' and ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''. (The account of the King's charge into Constantinople later in the series echoes ''Coriolanus'', but that may be a coincidence.)

** Three of the episode titles are "[[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Perchance to Dream]]", "[[Theatre/RichardII The Purple Testament]]" and "[[Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice A Quality of Mercy]]"; Rod Serling even quotes Portia's words to Shylock at the end of the latter episode ("The quality of mercy is not strained, / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath: it is thrice blessed, / It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes"; ''The Merchant of Venice'', IV.i).
** A running joke in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E120TheBard The Bard]]" (in which the hack would be TV writer Julius Moomer brings Shakespeare to life and puts him to work writing for television) has Shakespeare quoting his plays, title and verse. At one point the Bard says, "To be or not to be - that is...." looks confused, and then exits.
* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' the, apparently malfunctioning, Peter Abernathy threatens Ford and Bernard saying: "By most mechanical and dirty hand I will have such revenges on you both. What they are yet I know not, but they will be the ''terrors'' of the earth." before he is shut down. The first sentence is taken from a scene in Henry IV where Pistol tells Fallstaff to take revenge for the imprisonment of Doll, a prostitute he loves. The second is King Lear rebuking his daughters.

-->'''Greg''': "Juliet, you get down here! I love you and you're my cousin, get on down here!"
-->'''Colin''': "Oh, that this too too solid flesh would squeal like a pig!"
-->'''Wayne''': "Yea, the two revenuers from Verona approacheth... ''read a book, people''!"
-->'''Greg''': (to Wayne) "Look, Othello, we don't mind y'all movin' here, I just don't want you datin' my sister no more!"

* The opening line of [[https://poetryarchive.org/poem/shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day-sonnet-18/ Sonnet 18]] is referenced in ''Literature/Mort'', which mentions that its titular character's honesty would never make him a poet, because if he ever compared someone to a summer's day, he would mention which day it was and whether or not it was raining.

** In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', a character decides to rewrite various Shakespeare plays to better suit the local pirates' tastes, mangling not only famous Shakespeare quotations but entire plotlines, resulting in lines such as "Wherefore art thou treasure, Romeo?", "Spot, ye blasted dog, get out of me bloomin' garbage! OutDamnedSpot!" and "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him...and his two pals!", the latter spoken while juggling three skulls (one of them being Murray, of course).

* In real life, the moons of Uranus include [[Theatre/TheTempest Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand]], [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Titania, Oberon, Puck]], [[Theatre/KingLear Cordelia]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], [[Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew Bianca]], [[Theatre/TroilusAndCressida Cressida]], [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Desdemona]], [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juliet, Mab]], [[Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice Portia]], [[Theatre/AsYouLikeIt Rosalind]], [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing Margaret]] [[Theatre/TheWintersTale Perdita]], and [[Theatre/TimonOfAthens Cupid]]. In fact, according to Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, Ariel was one of the few moons of Uranus that ''wasn't'' initially named after a Shakespeare character--the first four were Titania and Oberon (after ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'') and Ariel and Umbriel (after Alexander Pope's ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock''). It just so happened that when they started finding more moons, Pope only got one more shout-out (Belinda) and Shakespeare got a couple dozen or so, with ''The Tempest'' alone receiving nine, ten if you include Ariel as a Tempest shout-out as well.

'''Sideshow Bob:''' ''[reenters the room]'' I shall! ''[takes the laptop]'' Come on, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}. Load, you unwieldy behemoth!\\

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* Fanfic ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'' has bucketloads and bucketloads of Shakespeare's quotes, puns and allusions. The title itself refers to two Shakespeare's plays and Archie quotes so many of Shakespeare's plays and poems which he knows by heart. Several sonnets appear in full. Horatio and Archie go to a bookseller's and read lines. Horatio buys a copy of sonnets as an apology gift for Archie. Basically this fic is one large appreciation of the Bard's genius and especially Archie's love for his work. And also the fandom's appreciation of this character trait of Archie's. He paraphrases Shakespeare in canon, too, but in fandom he's a major bookworm, major theatre geek and Shakespeare's most devoted admirer. This fic takes it UpToEleven.

** In ''Literature/{{Komarr}}'', when his future wife, Ekaterin, is questioned if Miles had a role in her husband's death, he mentally quotes "Was any woman in this manner wooed...", referencing Richard's famous ComfortingTheWidow scene (I.ii). This becomes something of a FunnyAneurysmMoment when Miles' political enemies help make it a widespread rumor that Miles killed Ekaterin's husband.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': As literature turns out to be Tim's worst class, because he hates reading plays which means he never quite gives enough of his very limited time to doing the homework, he ends up having to go to a "Shakespeare in the Park" production for extra credit. Later on he helps an acquaintance understand homework by quoting a bit of the Bard's poetry, which he appreciates far more than reading plays.