History ReferencedBy / WilliamShakespeare

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E69ThePassersby The Passersby]]", [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln]] quotes the following line from ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', Act II, Scene II: "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."

* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Improbable Cause" opens with Garak and Bashir having one of their literature discussions over lunch. Garak, hailing from a society where everyone really is out to get you, views Caesar's blind spot regarding Brutus as farcical instead of tragic. In the following episode, however, Garak's former boss makes a similar mistake.

* "Et tu, Humanite?" from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E18And19InjusticeForAll "Injustice For All".]]

* Prospero's "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" was paraphrased by Creator/HumphreyBogart for his iconic final line in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'': "The stuff that dreams are made of".

-->'''Goeth''': Hath not a Jews eyes?

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* In ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Noel]]'', as SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker carries the unconscious Batman to his newly-dug grave, a narrator says, "Some people start hallucinating when they're about to die. In my book, if you're [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} chasing beautiful women across rooftops]] and [[Franchise/{{Superman}} flying around with big colorful men that glow]], somethin's rotten in Denmark."
* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': "Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly; the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence," says [[spoiler:Dinobot]] before dying.
** In an earlier episode, Dinobot says: "Alas! Poor Tarantulas. I knew him, Cheetor." Dinobot was holding Tarantulas' severed spider legs though, not his [[AlasPoorYorick severed head]].
** Dinobot also tosses out a "To be or not to be, that is the question" when contemplating Free Will vs Fate.
* "How all occasions do inform against me" comes up often in [[Literature/{{Blackout}} Blackout/All Clear]] by Creator/ConnieWillis, they might as well be ArcWords. Polly Churchill chooses all her aliases from Shakespeare, and she falls in with a famous Shakespearean actor who constantly speaks in allusions to the Bard.
* The Creator/AnthonyBurgess translation of ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' riffs off the "Oh that this too too solid flesh" speech as well as quoting "In thy orisons BeAllMySinsRemembered."
* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0843.html #843]] borrows the back half of a line:
--> '''Darth Vader:''' I have discovered Force powers never dreamt of in your philosophy.
* ''Film/TheDeparted'': Before an operation, Captain Queenan tells Collin that "readiness is all."
** Earlier, Costigan quotes Hawthorne. Dignam isn't impressed: ''[fart noise]'' "What's the matter, smartass, you don't know any fuckin' Shakespeare?"
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''
** In the Creator/FUNimation dub of one episode, Frieza says to Vegeta, "GoodNightSweetPrince" before attempting to finish him off.
** Another episode's original title says, "Savior, Thy Name Is Son Gohan!!" (a parody of the line "Frailty, thy name is woman"), though the [=FUNimation=] dub renamed it as "A Great Fighter, His Name Is Gohan".
* Music/EmilieAutumn:
** "Opheliac" quotes a big part of Hamlet in "Doubt thou the stars are fire/Doubt thou the sun doth move/Doubt truth to be a liar/But never doubt I love." But then, the song is basically a tribute to Hamlet's Ophelia, so this was to be expected.
** "Goodnight Sweet Ladies" takes its name from a quote from Ophelia.
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy references Hamlet's famous soliloquy in their song "Against a Sea of Troubles". Where the Danish prince used the words to contemplate suicide, FIF uses them to signal defiance against the world until the bitter end.
* ''{{Series/Frasier}}'': An episode is titled "Roz's Krantz And Gouldenstein Are Dead". This is a reference to ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' (whose title is itself a line from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'').
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Something is rotten on the planet Wormulon," says Leela in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E13FryAndTheSlurmFactory Fry and the Slurm Factory]]".
* ''{{Film/Gettysburg}}'': Hamlet's "What a piece of work is man" speech is said by a fictionalized version of Joshua Chamberlain.
* The Major from the Manga/{{Hellsing}} Ultimate OVA quotes Hamlet, although instead of saying "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" he says "there are more things in heaven and hell then are dreamt of in their philosophy"
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower''
** In "The Duel", Clayton refers to the play when he talks with Hornblower about suicide.
--->'''Clayton''': Damned unsporting of the Everlasting to have fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter, if you ask me.
** In "Retribution", Lieutenant Kennedy reports the result of Mr Bush's shot on a Spanish ship by shouting "A hit, a hit, a palpable hit!" paraphrasing Osric's "a hit, a very palpable hit".
* In ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' Mikey auditions for a very odd version of the play called ''Hamlet the Christmas Giraffe''. He has a skull on hand, needless to say.
* The title and chapter-opening epigraphs of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfShredsAndPatches'' are all from ''Hamlet'', appropriately enough for a horror game where a good portion of the action centers around the play's first premiere. (The titular King, however, is an avatar of Literature/TheKingInYellow.)
* British statesman Lord Chesterfield's opinion in ''Literature/LettersToHisSon'': "for, To BE, or NOT To BE, is a question of much less importance, in my mind, than to be or not to be well." (letter 235)
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "The Last Hungry Cat", the Creator/AlfredHitchcock-like bear attempts this moral:
-->'''Bear Hitchcock:''' In the words of The Bard: "Conscience makes cowards of us all."\\
'''Sylvester:''' ''[off-screen]'' [[BigShutUp Ah, shut up!]] ''[throws a brick at the bear's head, leaving him with a CranialEruption]''\\
'''Bear Hitchcock:''' Good evening. ''[walks away, leaving his outline still with the same CranialEruption]''
* There are a ''ton'' of references to ''Hamlet'' in the ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' trilogy. ''Marathon 2'' has a level entitled "The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune". ''Marathon Infinity'' has a level called "Poor Yorick". In the level "Rise Robot Rise", Tycho compares Durandal and himself, respectively, to Claudius and Hamlet, "only I'm not crazy".
* Another ''M*A*S*H'' example: Winchester, at the end of the "Dreams" episode. "To sleep, perchance [[BadDreams to dream]]." Thus encouraging everyone to get another cup of coffee.
** An issue of ''[[Comicbook/XMen Uncanny X-Men]]'' from 1975 has this speech in its opening narration.
-->The bard of Avon said it best: "To sleep, perchance to dream...Aye, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause." And if the dreams of the dead must give us pause...what then of the dreams of the living? For example, the dreams of Charles Xavier?
** [[Series/{{MASH}} Winchester]] again referenced ''Hamlet'' on two other occasions. Once, after Hawkeye and BJ misquoted a number of Shakespearian lines for fun, Winchester quipped, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio..." prompting Hawkeye to announce, [[HypocriticalHumor "If there's one thing I hate it's someone who butchers Shakespeare."]]. Later, in the episode "Private Finance", when suspecting a dead soldier of criminal activities, Winchester commented, "Methinks something's rotten in the state of Ouijongbu."
* The Archie ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' comics feature the OldCopYoungCop pair of Roslyn Krantz and Gilbert D. Stern.
* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': Howard offers death-related quotes, and at one point the 'Death, the undiscovered country' soliloquy.
* In Nanki-Poo's famous song in ''Theatre/TheMikado'', the line "A thing of shreds and patches" echoes Hamlet's line, "A king of shreds and patches."
** And the book ''Literature/The13Clocks'' has its hero quote Nanki-Poo, thereby also quoting Shakespeare.
* Eric from ''Creator/MorecambeAndWise'' decided to do Hamlet's soliloquy because drama makes more money than comedy. After Ernie interrupting him, he eventually starts: "To be or not to be. That is the question. ... Thank you." He bows and leaves. Ernies then explains that there's more to it than that, so Eric goes back to doing comedy (after the skull comments that the entire thing was rubbish).
* A section of ''Film/MyDarlingClementine'' concerns Granville Thorndyke, a ham-actor with a reputation as a Shakespearean: he skips out of his scheduled appearance in a modern play in favor of drunkenly quoting ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' in the local saloon. Midway through his mediocre recitation of the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, he loses his place and asks for a cue. On hearing Doc Holliday speak the next line -- much better than he can -- Thorndyke refuses to continue. Holliday finishes the soliloquy, imbuing it with a pathos drawn from his own death wish.
* In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "The Screaming Skull," Tom says, "Alas, poor Yorick; she threw him well!"
* Jack makes this reference in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' during "Jack's Lament."
-->'''Jack:''' And since I am dead, / I can take off my head / to recite Shakespearean quotations!
* In ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'':
--> '''Clouseau''': Cato, something is rotten in the state of Denmark!
--> '''Cato''': Switzerland?
--> '''Clouseau''': Yes, that too.
* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' featured this memorable exchange:
--> '''Lothor''': "...there's something rotten in the state of Denmark..."
--> '''Marah''': I thought they were in California?
--> '''Lothor''': ...it's Shakespeare. Read a book.
--> '''Kapri''': Technically it's a ''play''...
* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'': The second movie has Lilly referring to Mia's chambermaids as 'Rosencrantz' and 'Guildenstern'.
* ''Literature/ProfessorMmaasLecture'': Two royal agents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
* At the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', the late Padme Amidala is actually laid out in a similar way to how Ophelia died by drowning for her funeral in Naboo after she has been strangled to death by her own husband Anakin Skywalker [[spoiler: [[ItWasHisSled Darth Vader]]]] due to him completely falling to the Dark Side.
* In ''{{Theatre/Ruddigore}}'', Robin quotes "Alas, poor ghost!" Also, his faithful servant Adam is named after a similar character in ''As You Like It''.
* An exchange on ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' is inspired by Hamlet's observation that "a man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm" and therefore that "a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar."
-->'''Pinsky:''' Think about it. When you die they stick you in the ground and it's the worms that eat you up!
-->'''Z.Z.:''' Then somebody digs up the worms that ate you and use to catch fish which somebody else eats.
-->'''Donkeylips:''' So wait a second guys, when we had fish sticks the other night, I could have eaten a fish, that ate a worm, ''that ate Elvis?''
-->'''Z.Z.:''' You could be burping up the King as we speak!
* ''Series/SamAndFriends'': One of Sam's friends is a puppet with skull-like features named Yorick.
* There is a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode called "The Play's The Thing".
* Used many, many times in all ''Franchise/StarTrek'' (not just ''Next Generation'') Notably in the sixth movie, ''The Undiscovered Country,'' with the famous quote that to truly appreciate Shakespeare, you need to hear it "in the original Klingon."
* "What a piece of work is a man; how noble in reason; how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable in action; how like an angel in apprehension; how like a god."
** Picard proves he knows Shakespeare in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. [[ShownTheirWork Even more impressive, Picard also notes to Q that while Hamlet said it ironically,]] [[PatrickStewartSpeech he says it with conviction.]] Creator/PatrickStewart has been in two productions of ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'', both in which he played ''[[EvilUncle Claudius]]'', and was originally trained as a Shakespearean actor.
** ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' uses it for song lyrics.
** In ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'', Sonja can give that speech verbatim, then muses that she said something meaningful and asks someone to write it down.
** Done awesomely in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''. Especially since [[spoiler: they were saying it ironically]], though Coraline and unfamiliar viewers wouldn't know it at the time.
* "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," quotes Carey Martin in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''.
** The chairman of Apocalypse, Inc. says almost the same thing in ''Film/TheToxicAvengerPartII'' to a homeless woman asking for a dollar, specifically attributing the quote to Shakespeare. She then responds with quote from Creator/DavidMamet: "Fuck you."
** As does [[RedBaron "Twilight"]] [[LadyOfWar Suzuka]] in ''Manga/OutlawStar'' (at least, in the English dub), in response to Gene's [[PerpetualPoverty request to borrow money from her]].
** Frank Burns uses the line (rather inaptly) to Radar in a ''Series/{{Mash}}'' episode.
* ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Super Street Fighter IV]]'': Juri's ending includes a rather appropriate use of the phrase 'Goodnight sweet prince'.
* ''Film/TrueRomance'': "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
* ''Film/WithnailAndI'' has Withnail quoting the 'I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth' speech.
** And thereby proving he's actually a good actor
* Quite a few in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', considering Lawrence is an actor in this version whose most recent play '''was''' ''Hamlet'' and the references and parallels to the play are played pretty creepily in the film. And ''Hamlet'' was famously played by Sir ''[[MeaningfulRename Lawrence]]'' Olivier.
* While ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' is most obviously ''Macbeth'' as noted below, the Ghost of the Murdered King seeking revenge, and the idea of guilting the Duke with a play that duplicates the events of the murder are both straight from Hamlet.
* Ned Martin, a radio announcer for baseball's Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and '70s, was fond of using Claudius' "O Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions" when things went bad for the team.
* "To thine own self be true": [[MisaimedFandom Nobody]] ''[[MisaimedFandom ever]]'' [[MisaimedFandom remembers that the line is supposed to be ironic in context.]]
** In ''Series/LoisAndClark: The New Adventures of Franchise/{{Superman}}'', as said by Leslie.
** Heather in ''Film/{{Clueless}}''. Bonus Point for remembering the context.
-->'''Heather:''' It's like Theatre/{{Hamlet}} said; "To thine own self be true."
-->'''Cher:''' Uh, Hamlet didn't say that.
-->'''Heather:''' I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
-->'''Cher:''' Well, I remember Creator/MelGibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.
** Des [=McGrath=] in ''Film/TheLastDaysOfDisco''
** ''Renaissance Man'': Bill
** ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'' has the protagonist quote this in his graduation speech. (This was incorporated from the original play into the musical, but then deleted.)
** ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': "Well, it's like the Ten Commandments say. 'Be true to thine ownself, and to thine own self..." "Be true. Yeah. Number seven."
** ''Theatre/PeerGynt'': "Out there, under the radiant sky, they say 'To thine own self be true.' But here, in the world of trolls, we say 'To thine own self be--all-sufficient!'"
* "Words, words, words":
** In "Show Me" from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', Liza interrupts Freddie's romantic song verse with "Words! Words! Words! I'm so sick of words!"
** "Martin's Laughing Song" in Music/LeonardBernstein's ''{{Literature/Candide}}''.
** Music/BoBurnham named his second album ''Words Words Words'' and then mentioned Hamlet in the title track.
* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', Psychos have a random chance of reciting the "too solid flesh" soliloquy in its entirety if you let them. Appropriate, since Psychos love to scream about meat and flesh in general, plus the soliloquy contains the word "Hyperion", the name of the MegaCorp whose CEO is the game's BigBad.
* In ''Webcomic/InsectoNocturno'', Ofelia made the password to enter into the subterranean Base of Thieves a part of scene 2 of part 4. Dimitri then complains to Gregory he forgot to call him "my lord" in the sentence.
--> ''The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing...\\
A thing?\\
Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide, fox, and all after.

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* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} "Screw your courage to the sticking place"]] is heard when the villagers storm the castle.
* In the classic WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "Trick or Treat", Witch Hazel (voiced by Creator/JuneForay) helps Huey, Dewey and Louie get back at Uncle Donald's playing a trick on them earlier by brewing a potion;
-->'''Witch Hazel''': Double double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble! Eye of needle, tongue of shoe, hand of clock that points at two! ''(aside to the boys)'' This is the real thing, y'know, right out of Shakespeare.
* Macbeth is a villain in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', as are the Weird Sisters. In an interesting twist on the original prophecy, Macbeth can still be killed "by no man of woman born" because he is bound to live so long as Demona (a Gargoyle) does not kill him (and vice-versa in Demona's case). Gargoyles hatch from eggs. It should also be noted that Macbeth is more in line with the real life Macbeth than Shakespeare's character and Lady Macbeth is never an antagonist. WordOfGod has stated that he planned an episode where the characters had to act out the play Macbeth.
* In ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', the title character likens his political career to the plot of this play in a letter to his sister-in-law. Later in the same song, his wife encourages him to "Screw his courage to the sticking place", but in a twist, she's trying to get him to do something productive and mentally healthy.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the most famous band in the Wizarding world is called the Weird Sisters.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the Weird Sisters provide live entertainment for the Yule Ball.
** Tonks is also a Weird Sisters fan.
* In [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban the film version]] of ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', the song "Double Trouble" is composed of lines from the Three Witches' chant.
** The witch from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' also sings/chants a couple of these lines while "making mushroom brew."
* In Marcus Pitcaithly's ''Literature/TheHerewardTrilogy'', a chapter entitled "Daggers in Men's Smiles" contains a flashback to the death of Macbeth. It doesn't go quite as in the play, though.
* In ''Literature/JaneEyre'', Mr Rochester quotes from ''Macbeth'' (the part with the witches).
* In the first HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', [[TheBully Buford]] dresses us as his worst fear -- Little Suzy Johnson, the closet EnfantTerrible. He attempts to "wash away the horror" with the garden hose.
* In ''Theatre/PrincessIda'', Melissa claims her mother could not say that the three girl students are men because "'are men' stuck in her throat," spoofing a line from ''Macbeth'' II.ii.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' has the planet Macbeth, which [[AllThereInTheManual according to the official Nintendo Player's Guide]] has its own Birnam Wood, though [[BigBad Andross]] had most of it cleared away in order to build his weapons factory.
* ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' is essentially ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' Discworld-style, and from the point of view of the witches. Naturally includes such lines as:
-->As the cauldron bubbled, an eldritch voice shrieked, "When shall we three meet again?"...\\
Another voice said, in far more ordinary tones, "Well, I can do next Tuesday."
* A Halloween-themed commercial for Empire Carpets spoofs the Weird Sisters' incantation. A witch stirs her cauldron, saying, "Boil, boil, toil and trouble/Time to call Empire on the double!"
* The ents in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and their march upon Isengard is one big shout out to Macbeth. Tolkien was simply disappointed that [[spoiler: Great Birnham Wood didn't actually rise and come against Macbeth.]]
** In ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', Goodgulf chants a ParodyMagicSpell which finishes:
-->Presto change-o\\
Toil and trouble\\
Rollo chunky\\
Double-Bubble!
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim goes with Ariana, Ives and Callie to a production of "Macbeth on the Beach" in a pubic park for extra credit. Ives thinks the play is so bad everyone involved should be arrested for violating the Bard's work while Ariana argues it's great that in America people can put on such ridiculous productions if they feel like it, but she finally relents as they're leaving that it was pretty unbearably bad. The two of them end up quoting a bit of Shakespeare from some of his other works at each other in their argument as well.
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* The Music/ArcticMonkeys song "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatImNot'' has an obscure reference in an otherwise upbeat, superficial song:
--> Oh there ain't no love no, Montagues or Capulets\\
Just banging tunes and DJ sets
* Peggy Lee's ''Fever'' mentions several forbidden romances, including Romeo and Juliet:
--> Romeo loved Juliet\\
Juliet she felt the same\\
When he put his arms around her\\
He said, "Julie baby you're my flame"
* Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Don't fear the Reaper'' mentions that Romeo and Juliet are "together in eternity".
* The line is brought up in ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' after discovering that Dylan's former name was "Helen Zaas".
* [[WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie "Oh, Romeo...Catch!"]]
* In ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', as he was emerging from his AngstComa, one of the thoughts flying through Rex's head was "Then I defy you, stars!"
* When playing as Venice in ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis III'', you get prompted with a message to expand your territory, before being asked "Why not fair Verona, where we lay our scene?"
* In the 1993 film ''{{Film/Gettysburg}}'', Longstreet asks Harrison, a former actor, if he can spy the Union's position at night, Harrison quotes Juliet: "all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
* ''Romeo and Juliet'' makes part of the song "Flesh Failures" in the rock musical ''{{Theatre/Hair}}''.
* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'', the sysadmin and Linux-user Mercutio to his co-workers (who prefer Windows or Mac OS): "A curse on both your [=OSs=]"
** And in ''Literature/GoodOmens'', this line is misquoted by Wensleydale as "A plaque on both your houses!"
** ''The White Deer'' by James Thurber: "A plague on both your horses!"
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E2TheTiesThatBind "The Ties That Bind"]] Granny Goodness forces Mister Miracle and Big Barda to help rescue Kalibak from Virman Vundabar. When the two are about to finish off Granny Goodness in the end, ComicBook/MartianManhunter points out the EnemyCivilWar needs to continue. Scott remarks, "A curse on both their houses."
* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Not if you call them 'Stench-Blossoms'."]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Or 'Crap-Weeds'."]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' has the town of Veronaville, which is named for the town of Verona in Shakespeare's work. It also has a pair of FeudingFamilies named the Montys and Capps, with a pair of StarCrossedLovers named Romeo and Juliette.
* [[VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon "What light from yonder window breaks.... That window over there, dummy!"]]
** "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Oh, There's Romeo!"
* WesternAnimation/TheTick made references to the "What's in a name" line.
* "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?" says Susie Barton in ''TimeFlies''.
* From the UK version of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', one session of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSJaER635k Number Of Words]]'' involved the four players reenacting the final scene, with a handicap reducing all their lines to two to six words long. Stephen Fry, who got the largest number (six) managed to work around it in a noticeably rigid fashion, uttering lines like "Once a Capulet, Always a Capulet!", "You love Romeo? You love ''Romeo''?!" and the immortal line [[ShapedLikeItself "I'm going to count to six."]]
* An entire boss fight in the Karazhan instance of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is an homage to Romeo and Juliet, featuring "Romulo" and "Julianne." The two even make quotes from various acts in the play throughout the fight.
* "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" Of course, "Romeo" is often replaced with another character's name. Though "wherefore" means "why", most parodies forget that.
** ''{{Film/Grease}}'': (Putzie, referring to Sandy)
** The eponymous Series/{{Joey}} says, "I did the soap thing, but I can be serious. 'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?' That's Romeo."
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': The "Star crossed lovers" and the use of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZQlkH9XpLU&feature=related the Romeo and Juliet theme]] as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoUT7q2iTbQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=60s Mockingjay signal]].
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' had a (now removed) beginner's quest based around getting Romeo and Juliet together.
* Maxwell Anderson's political satire ''Theatre/BothYourHouses'' takes its title from Mercutio's famous line.
* In ''Theatre/TheDrowsyChaperone'', Tottendale uses the play as an example of how love makes things work out in the end. When Underling points out that the play is a ''tragedy'', she [[ComicallyMissingThePoint says she never reads reviews]].
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* As if "[[Music/TheBeatles I Am The Walrus]]" wasn't bizarre enough, at the end part of a BBC radio production of ''King Lear'' was mixed in live. The part they got was Act 4, Scene 6, from Oswald's FinalSpeech to Edgar saying, "Sit you down, father; rest you."

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** (''God composed this drama "valley of tears" / And gave everyone a part / Long drama on the big tage / The world.'')

** Octarine, which can only be seen by magic-capable creatures (such as wizards and cats), is described as {{Literature/TheColourOfMagic the colour of magic}} and {Literature/TheLightFantastic thelight fantastic}} -- the latter being a quote from ''The Tempest''.

* A section of ''Film/MyDarlingClementine'' concerns Granville Thorndyke, a ham-actor with a reputation as a Shakespearean: he skips out of his scheduled appearance in a modern play in favor of drunkenly quoting ''{{Hamlet}}'' in the local saloon. Midway through his mediocre recitation of the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, he loses his place and asks for a cue. On hearing Doc Holliday speak the next line -- much better than he can -- Thorndyke refuses to continue. Holliday finishes the soliloquy, imbuing it with a pathos drawn from his own death wish.

* In ''Film/InALonelyPlace '', the drunken ClassicallyTrainedExtra who stumbles down the stairs in Steele's apartment quotes from Shakespeare's [[http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html Sonnet 29]].

* In the novel ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'', a clue to the Crystal Key is "I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light". Parzival recognises this as "a quote from Shakespeare" and reckons that it simply implies that getting the Crystal Key won't be easy, but Art3mis corrects him, pointing out that it is a quote from ''The Tempest'' and is a clue that to earn the Crystal Key, players have to play ''{{VideoGame/Tempest}}''.

** (''God composed this drama "valley of tears" / And gave everyone a part / Long drama on the big stage / The world.'')

* In ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', Goodgulf chants a ParodyMagicSpell which finishes:

* In the classic WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "Trick or Treat", Witch Hazel (voiced by Creator/JuneForay) helps Huey, Dewey and Louie get back at Uncle Donald's playing a trick on them earlier by brewing a potion;
-->'''Witch Hazel''': Double double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble! Eye of needle, tongue of shoe, hand of clock that points at two! ''(aside to the boys)'' This is the real thing, y'know, right out of Shakespeare.

* A ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' short of the same name spoofed this play, with Mickey and his friends taking on the roles of the characters in a dream sequence.

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-->-- '''Theatre/KissMeKate'''

-->'''Sideshow Bob:''' Let's not tarry. As Shakespeare said, "It it were done--when 'tis done--then 'twere ''best'' / It were done quickly." Power on! ''[turns on the laptop as a detonator and [[EvilLaugh laughs maniacally]]]'' This time I've made no mistakes.\\

* "There is no darkness but ignorance" is quoted in ''Manga/PopTeamEpic''' as the official website's substitute for a premise.

* "There is no darkness but ignorance" is quoted in ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'''s official website's substitute for a premise.