Themed list: Shakespearean HP fics

Posted on May 28, 2008
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Shakespearean HP fics, for the incredible, adorable, dearly loved Isiscolo. Happy belated birthday! I hope you’ll find here something you haven’t read and that you’ll like.

RULES

What I take:

- X-overs with and cover-versions of Shakespeare’s works;
- stories inspired by Shakespeare’s works when the original can be traced in the fic [relatively] easily;
- stories where HP characters make stage performances of Shakespeare’s plays;
- if it’s a fic based on a sonnet, it should be more than just a couple of quotations; the whole fic should be the interpretation of the sonnet.
In other words, I take stories where the characters of HP-verse can (this way or that) act as Shakespearean characters or in Shakespearean situations.

King Draco’s code, or Big No-Nos:

- no Draco/Ginny, Harry/Pansy (or anything else, and particularly no Draco/OFC) based on Romeo and Juliet. There are dozens of them, inpired by Leonardo di Caprio’s smile;
- no WIP rule is on today. I’ll accept a WIP only if it’s more than halfway through and the updates are regular;
- if a character reads/recites some Shakespeare, it’s not enough;
- a Shakespeare’s line in the title or epigraph is not enough either;
- pretty please, no silly parodies based on “To be or not to be” monologue;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, what Shakespeare’s work the fic ‘covers’ and in which way; pairing, rating, WIP status

Most fics here are taken from Scribbulus_ink’s Classic Canon Challenge (lj comm hp_classic). Visit the page, there are lots of good x-overs with classics.

Stories are sorted in two ways. Choose which one you prefer:

1. In alphabetical order by TITLE (articles excluded, i.e. A Little Touch Of Harry In the Night is placed under ‘L’).
2. By PLAY, also in alphabetical order. SONNET x-overs are placed separately at the bottom, sorted by sonnet number.

Special marks:

# - liked
## - loved
NR - have not read
new - added in the last month or so

In alphabetical order by TITLE

Actual James, by atrata (or here, locked)
Sirius/James; NC-17, short. Summary: “James has too many girl parts for Sirius to be entirely comfortable.” Inspired by Sonnet #20. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

All That Lives, by elyciel (or here)
Gen with some Harry/Draco; PG. Summary: “Post-war fic. Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Written for The Classic Canon Challenge.

Bestride The Narrow World, by sine_que_non767
Harry/Lupin, Snape/Sirius; R, short. Summary: “Voldemort is defeated. Harry’s fortunes are on the rise. Or so it seems.” Inspired by Julius Caesar. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Brief as Woman’s Love, by violet_quill
Percy/Tonks; R, short. Summary: Ministry employees do Hamlet, and two of the cast members have a disagreement over the nature of Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship.

By Cock They Are To Blame, by violet_quill
Harry/Draco, Harry/Lupin, Harry/Snape, NC-17, short. Summary: “Hamlet, starring capslock!Harry and androgynous!Draco, with special appearances by ghost!Sirius, whore!Remus, and bastard!Snape. A Most Lamentable Tragedy, told in a manner not quite as tragic and with a lot more sex.” Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Consort You ’til Bed-Time, by merrycontrary
HP version of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Discontinued WIP Written as a play.

Cupid’s Kills, by corvidae9
Harry/Draco, Ron/Pansy, PG, ~7500 words. Summary: Proof that there is good reason Gryffindor and Slytherin shouldn’t mix, and equally conclusive proof that perhaps they should do so more often. Warnings: DH non-compliance, misappropriation of the public domain, Shakespearean crack. Written for shakes_that_fic multi-fandom Shakespearathon, Much Ado About Nothing.

Divinity of Hell, by Greenie (stiletto) (locked)
One-sided Peter/James, imagined James/Sirius, actual James/Lily and Sirius/Remus; NC-17. Inspired by Otello. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Envy, by Snegurochka Lee NR
Snape/Lupin; NC-17, chaptered novella. Warnings: Character Death, Abuse, Non-consensual Sex. Summary: “The Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs Amateur Theatre proudly presents… “Envy,” a tale of love, rivalry, and betrayal set during the First War against Voldemort, and which may or may not owe a great debt to a certain Shakespearean tragedy. Prepare to meet Remus Lupin, discarded former lover of James Potter, who was not chosen as James’s Best Man, not chosen as his son’s godfather, not chosen as Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, not promoted or appreciated or loved in any way at all… and who has decided to make those he sees as responsible for his wretched life pay dearly…”

Full Fathom Five, by Sophie Richard
Lucius/Voldemort; NC-17, short. Summary: “Draco tries to save his father, but Lucius will not betray his master again.” Inspired by The Tempest. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Give Me That Man, by olivia_circe
Sirius/Remus; PG; short. Summary: “Sirius reads Hamlet and gets inspired.”

Greatness Thrusts, Or What You Will, by Marks
Harry/Neville, Draco/Neville, Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, Luna/OMC, Snape/Draco, Snape/Lupin, Luna/Draco, Ginny/Draco; PG-13; novella, humour. Summary: “A parody of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Neville’s a girl, Harry’s melodramatic, Luna’s gone missing, Draco is full of himself, and Snape is, well, Snape.” Written for The Classic Canon Challenge.

Guiltier Than Him They Try, by Eodrakken (pauraque) # (locked)
Lucius/Draco; NC-17, short. Summary: “When the cat’s away, vice will play.” Inspired by Measure for Measure. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

I Hate, by etoiledelanuit
James/Lily; PG-13, short. Summary: “My twist on how James and Lily got together over their years at Hogwarts, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #145. It takes Lily a long time to realize that she doesn’t hate James Potter as much as she thinks.”

I Hate…Not You, by Reddwarfer
Harry/Snape; R/NC-17; short. Summary: How Snape bewitches the mind without the use of potions. Slight references to D/s. Incorporates 4 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. In order of appearance #20, 147, 57, 58.

Th’Inconstant Moon, by Lady Jaida (locked)
Remus/Sirius; PG. Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The Marauders plan to perform Romeo and Juliet for Muggle Studies, but after James and Lily drop out, who’ll take on the roles of the star-crossed lovers?

It Shall Go Hard, by Underlucius (or here, locked)
Snape/Sirius; R, short. Inspired by Merchant of Venice. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Juliet and Romeo, by Vividian NR
Harry/Draco; R, novel-length. Summary: “Harry Potter, an avid Shakespeare lover, is now out of Hogwarts and performing as an actor. He auditions for a familiar play, but has no idea what will come out of it.”

Kings, lovers and fairies!-Hogwarts does drama! by AnimagOread (sighingpixie) NR
Snape/Harry; PG-13, novella. Summary: “Hogwarts is doing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Lad of Life, Imp of Fame, by _hannelore (locked)
Harry/Lupin; R, short. Summary: “The eve of the last battle (post OOtP) leaves Harry with his thoughts and a surprise visit from a trusted adviser.” Inspired by Henry V (Act 4, scene 1 before the Battle of Agincourt). Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Lion Taming, by Tangledhair
Harry/Snape; Draco/Hermione; Harry/Voldemort; PG-13, one-shot. Summary: “AU, Taming of the Shrew remake– Draco hires Snape to woo the shrewish Harry so that Draco might wed Harry’s younger sister.” Part of the From Dusk till Dawn Severus Snape/Harry Potter Fuh-Q-Fest at Challenge: 77. AU - Draco Malfoy has come to Hogsmeade in search of education, but instead he falls for the beautiful younger daughter/son (character of your choice) of Albus Dumbledore. Problem: his Love has an older brother, Harry, who is possessed of a headstrong (and shrewish) disposition and Dumbledore has declared that his oldest must be married before he’ll give the younger’s hand in matrimony. Help arrives in the form of his father’s old friend, Severus Snape — a nobleman, sadly fallen on hard financial times, who has come to Hogsmeade in search of a rich spouse. Who, exactly, will tame who?

A Little Touch Of Harry In the Night, by Amanuensis
Harry/Ron/Hermione, Harry/Colin; Harry/Snape; Harry/Draco; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: “A Potterverse take on Shakespeare’s Henry V with an AU Harry who’s not really as nice as we remember him. Bit of a bastard, actually. That’s okay; I got to write more sex that way. Shakespeare purists will just freak.”

Macbeth, by cyropi NR
Draco/Hermione; PG-13, novel-length. Summary: “‘Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.’ Voldemort’s second rise to power and a part in Shakespeare’s infamous Scottish Play make this fitting for Hermione – especially when she discovers a darker side to Draco Malfoy. PreHBP.”

Malfoy, by Underlucius #
Lucius/Snape; R, novella. Macbeth; written for the Classic Canon Challenge.

Mischief and Madness, by Isis (isiscolo) #
Snape/McGonagall, Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione and several others; PG, one-shot; with an optional NC-17-rated H/D epilogue linked at the end. Summary: “A Potterverse version of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Written for The Classic Canon Challenge.

The Most Grievous and Lamentable Tragedie of The Death of Lord Voldemort. A Small Play in Three Acts, by rowen_r
Gen; humour; short; references to various Shakespearean tragedies.

Much Ado About Nothing, by Goblet NR
Lily/James, Lupin/Snape, Rodolphus Le Strange/Peter Pettigrew; NC-17; novel-length. Summary: “When the graduating class of 1977 return to Hogwarts to attend the annual Hogsmeade Masked Mid-Summer Ball, turmoil and madness ensues when the Black brothers decide to meddle in the love lives of their friends.”

Much Ado About Nothing, A Winter’s Tale, and All’s Well that Ends Well, by Mayura Nacht NR
Harry/Draco; PG to R, novel-length. “Shakespearean Arc” series. Summary 1: “Ron, depressed over not getting a spot on the Quidditch team, believes he’s nothing special. When he wishes he were nothing, it comes true! Now no one can see him, but is he really as alone as he thinks?” Summary 2: “Hermione, jealous of Ron’s new girlfriend, discovers a journal hidden in the library full of maps of Hogwart’s secret passages. It’s all fun and games until the girls get trapped together. Can they get out without cursing each other?” Summary 3: “Love potions can be dangerous and contain life altering consequences. Draco is now forced to choose between what he’s known and running away. Is his child’s life worth loosing his own? Can or will Harry help?”

Never Did Run Smooth, by Karah Ross (must be in the files section in this group; you’ll have to be a member to read it) NR
Ron/Draco; PG-13. Summary: “A love story as twisted as a Shakespearean comedy.” (A Midsummer Night Dream) Part of HP MPreg FQF. Wave 3.

No Quiet Find, by roseeva
Ginny/Luna; NC-17, short. Inspired by the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies. Sonnet #27

Not Removed, by mechaieh
Snape/Lupin; PG, short. Summary: Six post-War drabbles inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet CXVI, with some help from Dorothy L. Sayers’s Have His Carcase.

The Play’s the Thing, by Slytherin Dragon NR
Pairings or ratings aren’t specified. The students are doing Othello. It’s followed by The Show Must Go On, where they took on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The Readiness Is All, by Layha Siderea
Harry/Draco; R, discontinued WIP. Summary: “Angst, brooding, sarcasm, Shakespeare, shameless Harry/Draco…. the stuff of LIFE.”

A Rose By Any Other Name, by Deirdra NR
Harry/Draco; R, novella. Summary: “Hermione has a dream that is almost one of Shakespeare’s works word for word. When she wakes up she has a clear view of what might be and what shouldn’t. There is a complete ‘cast list’ of the crossover of original characters to Harry Potter characters at the end.” Romeo and Juliet

Roses Have Thorns, by Titti
Snape/Sirius; PG-13. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #35.

Severus, the Shakespearean Slytherin
A Tragedie in Five Acts
Though Not to Be Finisshed Any Tyme Soon, If You Gette Our Drifte and The ending, Act Five, by Telanu (somniesperus)
Harry/Snape; PG; fragments (only the beginning and the ending, there’s no middle part). Romeo and Juliet-ish.

So Like an Old Tale: part 1, part 2, part 3, by Sophie Richard
James/Lily; Harry/Draco; NC-17. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

Sonnet, by Underlucius
PG. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #20.

Sonnet 17, by Mieko Belle
Sirius/Lupin; PG, short. Summary: “Sirius gets a gorgeous Valentine… but who’s it from? Is love in the air? Horror of horrors, did SNAPE send it?”

Stung, by Pushdragon #
Harry/Draco, NC-17, novella. Summary: After the war, Draco is really, really, really angry. A loose re-telling of Taming of the Shrew with duelling, mindless destruction, cross-dressing and lashings of crack.

Such Civil War, by Sparrowhawk
Snape/Lupin, short. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeares Sonnet #35.

That She Hath Thee, by Sandy Justine (sanj)
Harry/Ron/Hermione; strong R, short. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #42.

new The Things We Do For Love, by pipenerd
Harry/Voldemort; PG-13; short. Summary: The Death Eaters are betting Harry won’t pass the Dark Lord’s test… not sure it fits — pj

Thou ‘minds’t me Snape, of nothing more than Autumn, by Underlucius (locked)
Snape/Sirius; R; inspired by Sonnet 18. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Too Wise To Woo, by apythia
Snape/Hermione, PG-13, novella. Summary: The war is over and the last of the Death Eaters have been rounded up and sent to Azkaban. Moved by the spirit of celebration and blissful in their own new-found contentment, Hermione Granger’s friends begin to wonder if the never-ending battle of wits between she and Severus Snape isn’t a hint of something more. When they decide to test their theory with a little matchmaking scheme, their meddling puts Snape in a position to save Hermione from a debilitating evil. But how far is he willing to go to help her?

Too Wise to Woo Peacefully, by McKay (scribbulus_ink) #
Harry/Snape; NC-17, novella. Warning: underage. Summary: “Hey, kids, let’s put on a show! aka Hogwarts meets Shakespeare.” The play in question is Much Ado About Nothing.

Touchstone, by Cheshyre
Draco/OMC, R, short. Inspired by As You Like It. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Twelve Nights, or You Will What? by westernredcedar
Snape/Lupin, R, novella. Summary: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, set in slashy post-war Potter AU; canon-compliant to HBP.

Very Midsummer Madness, by George Pushdragon #
Harry/Draco and others, PG-13, novel-length. Summary: “I thought stealing the plot of Twelfth Night would be a good excuse for twin Harrys, shipwrecks, boys disguised as girls, Draco carrying a riding whip and Ginny flouncing around as a duchess. It was. Shakespeare’s themes of the paramountcy of love and the shortness of time are still there under all the fluff and Draco does look good in doublet and breeches. Warnings: Snape wearing his yellow stockings cross-gartered and under-use of the word “buttock”. Lashings of slash.”

When in Disgrace with Fortune, by MusIgneus
Snape/Harry, PG-13, short. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #29.

When Thou Feel’st It Cold, by Ferox (cave_canem)
Harry/Draco, PG-13, short. Summary:
“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field…
Age has a tendency to sneak in. Beauty fades. Youth slides away unnoticed. …and Harry and Draco take a left turn in mid-sonnet.” Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Shakespeare’s Sonnet #2, plot applied to Harry characters.

Which Steals Mine Eyes, by violet_quill (or here, locked)
Snape/Lucius, implied Snape/Narcissa; R, short. Inspired by Sonnet #20. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Sorted by Shakespeare’s work

Jump back to the stories sorted in alphabetical order.

As You Like It

Touchstone, by Cheshyre
Draco/OMC, R, short. Inspired by As You Like It. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

The Comedy of Errors

Consort You ’til Bed-Time, by merrycontrary
HP version of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Discontinued WIP Written as a play.

Hamlet

All That Lives, by elyciel (or here)
Gen with some Harry/Draco; PG. Summary: “Post-war fic. Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Written for The Classic Canon Challenge.

Give Me That Man, by olivia_circe
Sirius/Lupin; PG; short. Summary: “Sirius reads Hamlet and gets inspired.”

The Readiness Is All, by Layha Siderea
Harry/Draco; R, discontinued WIP. Summary: “Angst, brooding, sarcasm, Shakespeare, shameless Harry/Draco…. the stuff of LIFE.”

Henry V

Julius Caesar

Macbeth

Malfoy, by Underlucius #
Lucius/Snape; R, novella. Macbeth; written for the Classic Canon Challenge.

Measure for Measure

Merchant of Venice

It Shall Go Hard, by Underlucius (or here, locked)
Snape/Sirius; R, short. Inspired by Merchant of Venice. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Kings, lovers and fairies!-Hogwarts does drama! by AnimagOread (sighingpixie) NR
Snape/Harry; PG-13, novella. Summary: “Hogwarts is doing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

The Show Must Go On, by Slytherin Dragon NR
Pairings or rating aren’t specified. Part 2 of a trilogy. Students do A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Part 1 is The Play’s the Thing (see in Othello section).

Much Ado About Nothing

Too Wise to Woo Peacefully, by McKay (scribbulus_ink) #
Harry/Snape; NC-17, novella. Warning: underage. Summary: “Hey, kids, let’s put on a show! aka Hogwarts meets Shakespeare.”

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

Taming of the Shrew

new The Things We Do For Love, by pipenerd
Harry/Voldemort; PG-13; short. Summary: The Death Eaters are betting Harry won’t pass the Dark Lord’s test… not sure it fits — pj

The Tempest

Twelfth Night

Twelve Nights, or You Will What? by westernredcedar
Snape/Lupin, R, novella. Summary: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, set in slashy post-war Potter AU; canon-compliant to HBP.

The Winter’s Tale

So Like an Old Tale: part 1, part 2, part 3, by Sophie Richard
James/Lily; Harry/Draco; NC-17. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

Unspecified

The Most Grievous and Lamentable Tragedie of The Death of Lord Voldemort. A Small Play in Three Acts, by rowen_r
Gen; humour; short; references to various Shakespearean tragedies.

Sonnets

XVII

Sonnet 17, by Mieko Belle
Sirius/Lupin; PG, short. Summary: “Sirius gets a gorgeous Valentine… but who’s it from? Is love in the air? Horror of horrors, did SNAPE send it?”

XVIII

Thou ‘minds’t me Snape, of nothing more than Autumn, by Underlucius (locked)
Snape/Sirius; R; inspired by Sonnet 18. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

Sonnet, by Underlucius
PG. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #20.

Which Steals Mine Eyes, by violet_quill (or here, locked)
Snape/Lucius, implied Snape/Narcissa; R, short. Inspired by Sonnet #20. Written for the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies.

XXVII

No Quiet Find, by roseeva
Ginny/Luna; NC-17, short. Inspired by the Shakespeare Challenge in pornish_pixies. Sonnet #27

XXIX

When in Disgrace with Fortune, by MusIgneus
Snape/Harry, PG-13, short. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #29.

XXXV

Roses Have Thorns, by Titti
Snape/Sirius; PG-13. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #35.

Such Civil War, by Sparrowhawk
Snape/Lupin, short. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeares Sonnet #35.

XLII

That She Hath Thee, by Sandy Justine (sanj)
Harry/Ron/Hermione; strong R, short. Written for The Classic Canon Challenge. Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet #42.

CXVI

Not Removed, by mechaieh
Snape/Lupin; PG, short. Summary: Six post-War drabbles inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet CXVI, with some help from Dorothy L. Sayers’s Have His Carcase.

CXLV

Various

Many thanks to everybody who helped with the search!

Know other Shakespearean HP fics? Please, share!

Comments

2 Responses to “Themed list: Shakespearean HP fics”

mizstorge/pipenerd on July 7th, 2008 12:23 am

~The Taming of the Shrew~

The Things We Do For Love by pipenerd

Harry/Voldemort; T; shot.

The Death Eaters are betting Harry won’t pass thr Dark Lord’s test…
painless.j on July 27th, 2008 3:55 pm

Thanks!

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