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Kind and cultured MNers, please help dd1 with her Shakespeare project

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frogs · 09/03/2007 14:08

Dd1 (11) is in the final stages of a major project on Shakespeare.

Her last chapter is on influences of Shakespeare on modern life, and I suggested including a list of novels which have Shakespearean quotes as their titles. Dd1 loved the idea, until she found that although I know there are loads, I couldn't actually remember any specific ones.

Please help?

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becklespeckle · 09/03/2007 14:13

is this any help?

donnie · 09/03/2007 14:13

I can think of lots of Shakespearian phrases which are now common currency

in my mind's eye (Hamlet)
neither here nor there (Othello)
what the dickens( Merry wives of Windsor)
it (is) all Greek to me ( Julius Caesar)
every dog has its day ( also Hamlet)

can't recall any novels though...

raspberryberet · 09/03/2007 14:14

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (from Macbeth)

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallce (from Hamlet)

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (from The Tempest)

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (from Macbeth)

MissGolightly · 09/03/2007 14:16

Hmm, the only one that springs to mind is A Good Voyage by Katharine Davies - based on 12th Night, quote is from 12th Night too. Gosh there must be loads more, will have a think.

Miaou · 09/03/2007 14:16

ooh beckle, great site!!

frogs · 09/03/2007 14:18

You are all so clever! Thank you. Beckle, that site is fab. Dd1 will be thrilled.

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ElenyaTuesday · 09/03/2007 15:17

Not a book title but in the film of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the choir sing a song "Double, double, toil and trouble" which is based on parts of the witches' speeches in Macbeth.

Beetrootccio · 09/03/2007 15:21

what about musical versions of Shakepseare?

Kiss me Kate
West Side story
Merry Wives the Musical

stleger · 09/03/2007 15:42

Isn't Ten Things I hate about you (Heath Ledger!) loosely Taming of the Shrew? Which is no help, unless she likes American chick flicks!

becklespeckle · 09/03/2007 15:44

used to be a west end musical called 'return to the forbidden planet' based on The Tempest

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