Trope Namers/Theater

From the stage to this very wiki...these tropes were brought into public consciousness for plays at the local theater and/or opera house.

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Theater

Shakespeare

• Alls Well That Ends Well
  • All Is Well That Ends Well

• Antony and Cleopatra
  • Shaped Like Itself

• Hamlet
  • Alas, Poor Yorick
  • Bad Dreams
  • Be All My Sins Remembered
  • Catch the Conscience
  • Country Matters
  • Get Thee to a Nunnery
  • Goodnight, Sweet Prince
  • Hoist by His Own Petard
  • Like a Weasel
  • The Ophelia
  • Playing Gertrude
  • Suffer the Slings

• Othello
  • Foregone Conclusion
  • Green-Eyed Monster

• Romeo and Juliet
  • A Plague on Both Your Houses
  • Star-Crossed Lovers

• Twelfth Night
  • Twelfth Night Adventure

• Julius Caesar
  • Et Tu, Brute?

• King John
  • Twice-Told Tale

• Macbeth
  • Eye of Newt
  • No Man of Woman Born (co-named with The Lord of the Rings)
  • Out, Damned Spot!
  • Lady Macbeth
  • The Scottish Trope

• The Merchant of Venice
  • All That Glitters
  • Pound of Flesh Twist

• The Winters Tale
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bear

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• Annie Get Your Gun
  • Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better

• Aristophanes
  • Cloudcuckooland
  • Cloudcuckoolander
  • Lysistrata Gambit

• Avenue Q
  • The Internet Is for Porn

• Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Playing Cyrano

• Fiddler On the Roof
  • If I Were a Rich Man

• Gilbert and Sullivan
  • Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
  • Modern Major-General
  • With Catlike Tread

• Naughty Marietta
  • Dream Melody

• Plautus
  • Miles Gloriosus

• Sophocles
  • Oedipus Rex

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me

• 12 Angry Men
  • 12 Angry Men

• Wicked
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
  • Little-Known Facts

Opera

• Tosca
  • Scarpia Ultimatum

• Richard Wagner
  • Gotterdammerung