has anybody ever collected a list ofbooks whose titles were taken from lines of shakespear plays
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There are lists.
Actually, the answer I am going to give you is kind of more than you want, and at the same time, less than you want, but not really what you want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_of_works_based_on_Shakespearean_phrases
That is a complete (as there is) list of works with titles from Shakespear
Broken down into every imaginable category except for e-books.
Here is a list specifically of Novels inspired by Shakespearean works.
Joyce Carol Oates: New Heaven, New Earth
Eva Figes: Seven Ages
Francoise Sagan: Salad Days
Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree
Richard Matheson: What Dreams May Come
Edith Wharton: The Glimpses of the Moon
XXXXX XXXXXX Wallace: Infinite Jest
Peter Spence: To the Manor Born
Steven Berkoff: I Am Hamlet (play)
Monica Dickens: The Winds of Heaven
XXXXXXX XXXXXX: Infants of the Spring
Philip K. Dick: Time Out of Joint
Nigel Balchin: Kings of Infinite Space
Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Aldous Huxley: Mortal Coils
Graham Greene: The Name of Action
Agatha Christie: The Mousetrap (play)
Georgette Heyer: No Wind of Blame
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play)
Frederick Forsyth: The Dogs of War
Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March
Charles Dickens: Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales
Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Gilded Lily
Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
Pearl S. Buck: Words of Love
Honoré de Balzac: A Father’s Curse and Other Stories
Francis King: Act of Darkness
XXXX XXnklater: Ripeness Is All
Peter Straub: Full Circle
Danielle Steel: Full Circle
Alistair MacLean: The Way to Dusty Death
Agatha Christie: By the Pricking of My thumbs
Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters
John Wyndham: The Seeds of Time
John Steinbeck: The Moon Is Down
Bob Shaw: Dagger of the Mind
Rachel Billington: A Painted Devil
Paul Bowles: Let It Come Down
Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be?
Ellery Queen: Double, Double
Ted Hughes: Four Tales Told by an Idiot
Faye Kellerman: The Quality of Mercy
Erica Jong: Shylock’s Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
Frances Parkinson Keyes: All That Glitters
Georgette Heyer: Behold, Here’s Poison
O. Henry: Sixes and Sevens
Richard Matheson: Bid Time Return
John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent
Romeo and Juliet
XXXXXXX XXXXXX: Not So Deep As a Well
Ford Madox Ford: It Was the Nightingale
Robert Bloch: Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
William Trevor: Fools of Fortune
Irwin Shaw: Gentle People
Pierre Boullé: Not the Glory
W. Somerset Maugham: Cakes and Ale
Agatha Christie: Sad Cypress
H. E. Bates: The Darling Buds of May
John Mortimer: Summer’s Lease
Anthony Burgess: Nothing Like the Sun
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
And then I'd have to make a leap to tie that in with e-books.
If it's a modern work, then it is very likely an e-book, but I'd have to look each one up to be sure.
If it is not, then it has very likely become an e-book through the Gutenberg Project.
Or It's affiliates.
Let me know if the information I've given you is helpful. I'll keep digging if you'd like.