SHAKESPEARE SPINOFFS
A BIBLIOGRAPHY ARANGED BY SOURCE PLAY

Originally compiled by Lawrence Schimel, Yale University 7/30/90
Updated by Hardy M. Cook, 12/03/92; 12/16/93; 2/11/94; 6/7/96; 8/12/96;
1/3/97
Updated by Christine Mack Gordon, 2/3/98, 1/28/00


Antony and Cleopatra:

John Dryden. All for Love. Drama.
Carry on Cleo. Dir. Gerald Thomas. 1964. Film. Also Julius Caesar.

Comedy of Errors:

Big Business. Dir. Jim Abrahams. 1988. Film.
The Boys from Syracuse. Dir. A. Edward Sutherland. 1940. Film (musical).
Our Relations. Dir. Harry Lachman. 1936. Film

Cymbeline:

Innes. Cymbeline Refinished. Drama.

Hamlet:

The Bad Sleep Well. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. 1960. Film.
Jean Betts. Ophelia Thinks Harder. Play.
Ron Blair, Michael Boddy, Marcus Cooney (book), Graham Bond and Rory
O'Donohue (lyrics and music). Hamlet on Ice. 1971, Nimrod Street Theatre
Company, Sydney, unpublished. Pantomime.
Lee Blessing. Fortinbras. 1992. Drama.
Ona Winants Borland. The Lamentable Tragedy of Omelet and Oatmealis: in
song and verse. (Chicago Dramatic, 1916). Play.
Simon Brett. Sicken and So Die. Mystery novel.
Richard Brautigan. "The Castle of the Cormorants." 1970. Poem.
Richard Brautigan. "The Rape of Ophelia." 1970. Poem.
Georg Britting. Lebenslauf eines dicken Mannes, der Hamlet hiess. 1961.
Novel.
Alfred Doeblin. Hamlet oder Die langer Nacht nimmt ein Ende. 1946.
Novel.
Carole Corbeil. In the Wings. Novel. Toronto: Stoddart, 1997.
T. S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poem.
Family Cat. "Ophelia." Song. (British pop group)
The Elsinore Appeal. Mock trial transcript.
Gilligan's Island episode. Televison.
Hello, Hamlet! Musical comedy. Rice University.
Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia (parts 1 and 2). Erotic films.
Hamlet Iiikemaailmassa. (English title[s] Hamlet Goes Business and
Hamlet Gets Business) Dir. Aki Kaurismaki. 1987. Finnish film.
Innes. Hamlet, Revenge.
Elias Olan James. Thieves of Mercy. Verse.
L.A. Story. Dir. Mick Jackson. 1991. Film.
The Last Action Hero. Dir. John McTiernan. 1993. Film.
Adam McNaughton. "The Three-Minute HAMLET." Song.
A Midwinter's Tale (UK title: In the Deep Midwinter). Dir. Kenneth
Branagh. 1995. Film.
Heiner Muller. Hamlet Machine and Other Texts for the Stage. 1984.
Drama.
Richard Nathan. A Night in Elsinore. Play. (parody written for the Marx
Brothers, Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges). Available online at
http://www.dramex.org/plays/scripts/elsinore.txt
Ophelia. Dir. Claude Chabrol. 1962. Film.
The Rest is Silence. Dir. Helmut Kautner. 1960. Film.
Leonard Peterson. The Great Hunger. An Eskimo verion of the story. 1958.
Play.
Paul Rudnick. I Hate Hamlet. Drama.
Shel Silverstein.  "Hamlet as Told on the Street" (rap). Published in
Playboy, January 1998. Available on line at
http://www.deathstar.org/groups/ros/hamletrap.html
Hunter Steele. Lord Hamlet's Castle. 1987. Novel.
Strange Brew. Dir. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. 1983. Film.
Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Drama.
Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. 1991. Screenplay.
Tom Stoppard. Dogg's Hamlet. Drama.
Ambroise Thomas. Hamlet. Opera. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel
Carre. 1868.
John Cargill Thompson. Hamlet II: Prince of Jutland. 1984/1995.
Monologue.
To Be or Not To Be. Dir. Mel Brooks. 1983. Remake of 1942 version. Film.
To Be Or Not To Be. Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. 1942. Film.
Henry Treece. The Green Man. Novel.
Two Girls and a Boy. 1998. Film.
John Wain. "Feng." 1975. Poem.

The Henriad

Kenneth Branagh. Henry V. Screen adaptation. London: Chatto & Windus,
1989. NY: Norton, 1997.
Chimes at Midnight.(Alternative title: Falstaff). Dir. Orson Welles.
1966. Film (Also MWW)
Phoebe Fenwick Gaye. Good Sir John. London: M. Secker, 1930. Fiction.
William Kenrick. Falstaff's Wedding. 1795. Drama?
My Own Private Idaho. Dir. Gus Van Sant. 1990. Film.
Robert Nye. Falstaff. Hamish Hamilton, 1976; Penguin Books 1983.
Fiction.
Verdi. Falstaff. Opera (Also MWW)
Wishbone. Scenes from Henry IV. Children's television series.


Henry VI

Show of Shows. Dir. John Adolfi. 1929. Film.


Julius Caesar

George Bernard Shaw. Caesar and Cleopatra. Drama.
Carry on Cleo. Dir. Gerald Thomas. 1964. Film. (Also Antony and
Cleopatra)
An Honourable Murder. Dir. Geofrey Grayson. 1960. Film.


King Lear

Barker. Seven Lears.
Samuel Beckett. Endgame. Drama.
The Big Show. Dir. James Clark. 1961. Film.
Edward Bond. Lear.  Drama.
Broken Lance. Dir. Edward Dmytryk. 1954. Film.
Geoffry Brown. Forrest: The Life and Times of the First American Star,
Including the Notorious Riot at Astor Place. 1990. Drama.
Elaine Feinstein and The Women's Theatre Group. Lear's Daughters. 1987.
Drama.
House of Strangers. Dir. Joseph Mankiewicz. 1949. Film.
John Keats. "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Again." Verse.
Richard Nathan. How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth. Play. (parody
written for W.C. Fields). Available online at
http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lear.html
Ran. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. Film.
Margaret Laurence. The Stone Angel. Fiction.
Jane Smiley. A Thousand Acres. Fiction.
Nahum Tate. The History of King Lear. Drama.


Macbeth

Maurice Baring. Lady Macbeth's Trouble. Fiction.
Jean Binnie. Lady Macbeth. Drama.
Graham Bond and Jim Burnett (book), Graham Bond (music). Boy's Own
Macbeth.1979. Pub.: Currency Press (1980). Comic musical play.
Howard Brenton. 13th Night. 1983. NB: this isn't a Twelfth Night spinoff
but a play which uses Macbeth throughout as its structuring narrative.
Stephen Briggs. Wyrd Sisters. Based on the novel by Terry Pratchett.
Drama.
Leslie Epstein. King of the Jews. Fiction.
Barbara Garson. Macbird. Grove Press, 1966. Drama.
In the Flesh. Dir. Antonio Passolini & Stuart Canterbury. 1999. Erotic
film.
Eugene Ionesco. Macbett. Drama.
Joe Macbeth. Dir. Ken Hughes. 1955. Film.
Macbeth. Dir. Aki Kaurismaki. 1987. Film.
Macbeth 2000. Multi-media rock musical. See website at:
http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/artsci/theatre/Theatre.html
Marvin Kaye. Bullets for Macbeth. Toronto: Dutton, 1976. Detective
novel.
Men of Respect. Dir. William Reilly. 1991. Film.
Rick Miller. MacHomer: The Simpsons Do Macbeth. One man show, 1999.
Richard Nathan. Scots on the Rocks. Play. (Parody written for Abbott &
Costello). Available online at
ttp://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/macbeth.html
Blythe Power. "Dave Mac." Song.
Terry Pratchett. Wyrd Sisters . Fiction.
Scenes from Macbeth. Dir. Chris Philpott.  1989. Film. A short Canadian
film (42 minutes), written, produced, and directed by Chris Philpott. A
version (at leastly partly. parody) of Macbeth done in a business
setting in Toronto; it features an odd mixture of Shakespearean dialogue
and modern dialogue. Some especially nice touches are Birnham Wood's
coming to Dunsinane being done as a pickup truck full of Christmas trees
(from which Macbeth is killed in a  drive-by shooting); "double, double,
toil and trouble" done as a rap number by street kids; the "tomorrow,
and tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech being done three times in a row in
entirely different styles, including standup comedy; and the wyrd
sisters as bag ladies.  ]A colleague and I delivered a paper on this
film at Shakespeare sessions of the American Popular Culture Association
a couple of years ago. (Information from Mike Richardson, Lakehead
University, Ontario. (jrichard@mist.lakeheadu.ca)
George Bernard Shaw. The Macbeth Skit. Drama.
James Thurber. "The MACBETH Murder Mystery." Fiction.
Tom Stoppard. Cahoot's Macbeth. Drama.
Thatcher on Acid. "Is this a dagger." Song. (British anarcho-punk rock
band)
John Cargill Thompson. Macbeth Speaks. 1991. Monologue.
Throne of Blood. Dir. Akira Kurosawa,1957. Film.
Verdi. Macbeth. Opera.

Measure for Measure

Howard Brenton. Measure for Measure: a comedy, after Shakespeare. 1972.


The Merchant of Venice

Sir John Greer Ervine. The Lady of Belmont. Macmillan, 1924. Drama.
Robert Farquhar. Portia Pulls a Pinch Play. 1930. Drama.
Faye Kellerman. The Quality of Mercy. Ballantine Books, 1989. Fiction.
Erica Jong. Serenissima. Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Fiction.
Ludwig Lewisohn. The Last Days of Shylock. 1931. Fiction.
Fiona Pitt-Kethly. Shylock. Verse.
Arnold Wesker. The Merchant (also published/produced as Shylock). 1976.
Drama.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight. Dir. Orson Welles.1966. Film (Also H4, H5)
Verdi. Falstaff. Opera. (Also H4, H5)


A Midsummer Night's Dream

Paul Anderson. A Midsummer Tempest. Fiction.
Jean Betts. Revenge of the Amazons. Play.
Pete Brooks. If We Shadows. Drama.
L. Sprauge de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. Land of Unreason. Fiction.
Raymond E. Feist. Fairy Tale. Fiction. (See also The Tempest)
Wendy Froud & Terri Windling. A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale. 1999.
Children's book.
Neil.Gaiman. Sandman #19 (also reprinted in the collection Dream
Country). Deals with A Midsummer Night's Dream. Comic.
A Midslumber Night's Dream. Erotic film.
Midummer. 1999. Contemporary version of the play. Film. Dir. James
Kerwin.
A Midsummer Night's Bondage. 1993. Erotic film.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1999. Film. Dir.Michael Hoffman.
Keith Robinson, Geoffrey Rush and Tony Taylor. The Popular Mechanicals.
1987. Belvoir Street Theatre Company, Sydney, unpublished. Drama.
Keith Robinson, Geoffrey Rush and Tony Taylor. Pop Mex 2 (a sequel!).
1992. Belvoir Street Theatre Company, Sydney, unpublished. Drama.

Much Ado About Nothing

Kenneth Branagh. Much Ado About Nothing. Screenplay, introduction, and
notes. New York & London: Norton, 1993.
Christine Mack Gordon. "Brave Punishments." In Anthology of the Writers
of Minnesota 1996. Madison: Crowbar Press, 1995.

Othello

All Night Long. Dir. Basil Dearden. 1962. Film.
Anna's Sin. Dir. Camillo Mastrocinque. 1953. Film.
John Peale Bishop. Act of Darkness. 1936. Fiction
Carnival. Dir. Herbert Wilcox. 1931. Film
Catch My Soul. (Alternative title: Santa Fe Satan) Dir. Patrick
McGoohan. 1974. Film.
Machado de Assis. Dom Casmurro. Fiction.
A Double Life. Dir. George Cukor. 1947. Film.
Fame. "Desdemona." Song. (Television series cast album)
John Fowles. The Magus. Fiction.
John Gardner. Every Night's a Bullfight. Fiction.
Nadine Gordimer. My Son's Story. Fiction
Aldous Huxley. The "feelie" Three Weeks in a Helicopter in Brave New
World. Fiction.
Internal Affairs. Dir. Mike Figgis. 1990. Film
C. Bernard Jackson. Iago. Drama. Produced in the L.A. Theatre Center,
1996.
Caleen Sinnette Jennings. Playing Juliet/Casting Othello. Drama.
Produced by Source Theatre and the Folger Shakespeare Library at the
Folger Elizabethan Stage. January 1998.
Jubal. Dir. Delmar Davis.1956. Film.
Ralf Koenig. Iago. German gay porn comic book.
Ann Marie MacDonald. Goodnight Desdemona (Goodmorning Juliet). Drama.
Charles Marowitz. An Othello. In Open Space Plays. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1974. Drama.
Allan Massie. "Ossie: a Dumb Black Ox." In Shakespeare Stories, ed.
Giles Gordon. 1982. Fiction
Men Are Not Gods Dir. Walter Reisch. 1936. Film.
Othello: Dangerous Desire. Erotic film.
Caryl Phillips. The Nature of Blood. NY: Knopf, 1997. Fiction.
The Playboys. Dir. Gillies MacKinnon. 1992. Film.
Salman Rushdie. The Satanic Verses. Fiction.
George Bernard Shaw. Heartbreak House. Drama.
Verdi. Otello. Opera.
Paula Vogel. Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief. Drama.

Richard II

Eugene Ionesco. Exit the King. Drama.

Richard III

Sharon Kay Penman. The Sunne in Splendour. Penguin, 1982. Historical
fiction.
Antony Sher. The Year of the King. Memoir.
Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time. Mystery novel.
Tower of London. Dir. Roger Corman. 1962. Film.
Tower of London. Dir. Rowland Lee. 1939. Film.

Romeo and Juliet

Maxwell Anderson. Winterset. 1935. Drama.
Berlioz. Romeo et Juliette. Symphonic poem.
Joe Calarco. R & J. Play (c. 1997)
Capuletta: or Romeo and Juliet Restored, an "operatic burlesque" in The
Mimic Stage. 1869.
Carnival in Venice. A gay R & J. Erotic film.
Carry on Teacher. Dir. Gerald Thomas. 1959. Film.
Censored. Dir. Michael Zinn. Erotic film.
Elvis Costello. The Juliet Letters. Album.
Exiles. Futuristic spin-off (erotic). Dir. Brad Armstrong. Wicked
Pictures, USA. Film. 1998.
John Gardner. Every Night a Bullfight. Fiction.
The Hollywood Review. Sequence from Romeo and Juliet with Lionel
Barrymore. 1929. Film.
Juliet and Romeo. Dir. Joe D'Amato. Erotic film.
Jes Klein. "Romeo" Song.
Amarantha Knight. The Darker Passion: The Picture of Doran Gray. Erotic
fiction (S&M).
Panic Button. Dir. George Sherman. 1964. Film.
Ranma and Juliet. Japanese animated film.
Michael Redmond and Nola York. Wild Wild Women. Musical.
Romanoff and Juliet. Dir. Peter Ustinov. 1961. Film.
Romeo and Julian. 1993. A "gay romantic musical" based on Romeo and
Juliet. Won three awards from AVN in 1994.
Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Miguel Delgado. 1944. Film.
Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Paul Thomas. Erotic film.
Romeo and Juliet 2. Dir. Paul Thomas. Erotic film.
The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet. Dir. A.P. Stootsberry. 1968.
Film.
Shakespeare's R & J. Adapted and directed by Joe Calarco. John Houseman
Studio Theater, NY, January 1998. An adaptation of the play with a frame
set in a boys school. The entire play is done by four male actors.
Reviewed in the NY Times 1/23/98.
Shocking Shakespeare:  Romeo and Juliet Get Juicy. 1999. Erotic film.
Sweet Light in a Dark Room. Dir. Jiri Weiss. 1960. Film.
John Cargill Thompson. Romeo and Juliet: Happily Never After. 1995.
Short play.
Tromeo and Juliet. Dir. James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman. 1995. Film.
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. West Side Story. 1961. Drama (Musical)
Unknown Italian director. A "cat" version of the story. Film.
Wishbone. Romeo and Juliet. Children's television program.
Where the Girls Aren't. Dir. Fred Lincoln. 1999. Erotic film.

The Sonnets

The Angelic Conversation. Dir. Derek Jarman. 1980. Film.
Stephanie Cowell. The Players: a novel of the Young Shakespeare. Norton,
1997; German: Piper Verlag, 1999. Fiction.
Love's Fire. Fresh numbers by seven American playwrights: Eric Bogosian,
Bitter Sauce (sonnet 118); William Finn, Painting, a song (sonnet 102);
John Guare, The General of Hot Desire, an Essay (sonnets 153 and 154);
Tony Kushner, Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmertzen Nicht Verloren
Seine, or Ambivalence (sonnet 75) Marsha Norman, 140 (sonnet 140);
Ntozake Shange, Hydraulics Phat Like Mean (sonnet 128); and Wendy
Wasserstein, Waiting for Philip Glass (sonnet 94). Short plays based on
the sonnets. Produced by The Acting Company at the Guthrie Lab,
Minneapolis, January 1998 (begins a national tour).
Cothburn O'Neil. The Dark Lady. Crown 1954. Fiction.
George Bernard Shaw. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Drama.

The Taming of The Shrew

John Fletcher. The Woman's Cries, or The Tamer Tamed. Drama.
Amarantha Knight. The Darker Passiona: The Picture of Doran Gray. Erotic
fiction (S&M).
George Sidney. Kiss Me Kate. 1953. Drama (Musical).
Moonlighting episode. Television.
The Taming of the Screw. Dir. Jim Powers. 1997. Erotic film
10 Things I Hate About You. Dir. Gil Junger. 1999. Shrew set in a
contemporary high school.


The Tempest

W. H. Auden. The Sea and the Mirror. Verse.
Beresford-Howe. Prospero's Daughter.
Ruben Blades. "Caliban." Song.
Robert Browning. Caliban upon Setebos. Verse.
Aime Cesaire. A Tempest. Drama.
Dryden/Davenant. The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. Drama.
Robertson Davies. Tempest Tost. Novel.
Philip Dunne. Prince of Players. 1955. Film.
Raymond E. Feist. Fairy Tale. Fiction. (See also A Midsummer Night's
Dream)
Forbidden Planet. Dir. Fred Wilcox. 1956. Film.
John Fowles. The Magus. Fiction.
Neil Gaiman. The Tempest. (It is, interestingly enough, the final issue
of the Sandman series and Gaiman's farewell to his readers.) Comic.
Lee Hoiby (music) and Mark Shulgasser (libretto). The Tempest. 1986.
Opera.
La Princess de Milan. Opera-ballet. Karine Saporta, choreographer.
Margaret Laurence. The Diviners. Fiction.
Michael Nyman. Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs. Derived from the score for
La Princesse de Milan, an opera-ballet based on The Tempest,
choreographed by Karine Saporta.
Prospero's Books. Dir. Peter Greenaway. 1991. Film.
Tempest. Dir. Paul Mazursky. 1982. Film.
The Tempest. Dir. Derek Jarman. 1980. Film.
Dennis Watkins (book) and Chris Harriott (lyrics). Beach Blanket
Tempest. 1984 (revised 1990). New Moon Theatre Company, unpublished.
Musical.
Tad Williams. Caliban's Hour. Fiction. 1995.
Wishbone. The Tempest. Children's television program.

Troilus and Cressida

John Dryden. Troilus and Cressida. Drama.
Tom Stoppard. Travesties. Drama.

Twelfth Night

Alan R. Gordon. Thirteenth Night. 1999. Mystery novel.
Playboy Twelfth Night. Erotic film.
Your Own Thing. Musical comedy.

The Winter's Tale

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). HERmione. Novel.


Miscellaneous

Edward Albee. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Drama.
David Allen. Cheapside. 1984. Pub.: Currency Press, 1985). Drama.
Libby Appel and Michael Frlachman. Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript for
Performance and Analysis. Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Drama.
Richard Armour. Twisted Tales from Shakespeare. NY: McGraw Hill, 1957.
W. H. Auden. The Sea and the Mirror. Verse.
Patrick Barlow. Shakespeare: The Truth, or from Glover to Genius.
London: Methuen, 1993.
Stephan Bruce Becker. Music for various Shakespeare plays. Contemporary.
Contact him at PARAGON860@aol.com.
Samuel Beckett. Happy Days.
Alan Bennett. The Madness of George III. 1994. Drama.
Gary Blackwood. The Shakespeare Stealer. 1998. Young adult fiction.
Edward Bond. Bingo. A play about Shakespeare.
Bertolt Brecht. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Drama.
Anthony Burgess. Nothing Like the Sun. 1965. Fiction.
Anton Chekhov. The Seagull. Drama.
Mary Cowden Clarke. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. Fiction.
Susan Cooper. King of Shadows. 1999. Young adult fiction.
Stephanie Cowell. Nicholas Cooke. 1993. Fiction.
Stephanie Cowell. The Physician of London. 1995. Fiction.
Pamela Dean. Tam Lin. Fiction.
Sigmund Freud, "The Theme of the Three Caskets," "The 'Exceptions,'"
"Those Wrecked by Success." Psychoanalytic theory.
Alfred Jarry. Ubu Roi. Drama.
Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg. Weird Tales from Shakespeare.
Fantasy/science fiction.
Vlady Kociancich. The Last Days of William Shakespeare. Translated by
Margaret Costa. 1990. Fiction.
Charles and Mary Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare. Fiction.
Margaret Laurence. The Stone Angel. Fiction.
Fritz Leiber. No Great Magic. Fiction.
Live Nude Shakespeare. Dir. Michael Fox. Erotic film.
David McFadden.Three poems on "Timon of Athens," "Much Ado About
Nothing," and "Blue Angel" (much Marlene, of course, but much Sonnet 32,
too).
Charles Marowitz,. The Shrew, Hamlet, etc.
Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince. Fiction.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
(Abridged). Drama.
Leon Rooke. Shakespeare's Dog. Fiction.
Antony Sher. The Year of the King. Memoir.
Sting. Nothing Like the Sun. Album.
Tom Stoppard. Jumpers. Drama.
Derek Walcott. Pantomime. 1980.
Stanley Wells ed. Shakespeare Burlesques.