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* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]:

** ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'':

*** [[With Catlike Tread]]! ''*STOMP*'' Upon our prey we steal! ''*STOMP*''. The "sneaking about while making a lot of noise or talking about how stealthy they are being (or both)" is widely used in crime-caper and spy-thriller parodies. Admittedly, most such uses don't involve singing. The melody itself has also become a memetic mutation, spawning first "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" which in turn mutated to the [[Black Comedy]] variant "Hail, Hail the Gangrene's Here".

** From ''HMS Pinafore'':

* '' {{spoiler|[[Macbeth]]}}'', or "[[Macbeth|The Scottish Play]]":

** "Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire, burn and cauldron, bubble. Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog." This scene has long served as the basis for a common presentation of witches in general, stooping over a steaming cauldron. It's also a likely source of "eye of newt" as a standard ingredient in witches' brews, magic potions, and spells in general.

* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'':

** The entire balcony scene became a theatre meme.

** [[A Plague On Both Your Houses]]!

** Two households, both alike in dignity...

** The [[Analogy Backfire]] of describing a relationship as "like Romeo and Juliet". What, you're both going to kill yourselves in the end?

* ''[[Henry V]]'':

** The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers!

* ''[[Julius Caesar]]'':

** Beware the ides of March!

* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'':

** Shylock, as a term for a loan shark.

* ''A Winter's Tale'':

 

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