(1942). The text is sung by Cleo Laine to music by John Dankworth on her 1964 album Shakespeare and All That Jazz. At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world. Shakespeare sings the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, when asked about his view of death (the song is titled "Fear No More"). "Fear no more the heat of the sun" is the line that Winnie and her husband are trying to remember in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days as they sit exposed to the elements. In the Epilogue of the novel Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie, the first four lines of the verse are quoted by the character Ginevra Boynton as she reflects on the life of her deceased mother Mrs Boynton. In The Scent of Water (1963) by Elizabeth Goudge, the central character, Mary Lindsay, feels struck by lightning when she realises she has fallen in love with Paul Randall, an author and Royal Air Force pilot, blinded in the last days of World War II, and married. "Fear no more the lightning-flash", Mary suddenly thinks, along with the rest of that stanza, ending "All lovers young, all lovers must /Consign to thee, and come to dust", knowing she must hide her love, and recognising that, already fifty, she is growing old (Chapter IX, Part 1, p 164). See also Cymbeline, 2014 film Notes and references Notes References Bibliography Editions of Cymbeline Secondary sources Further reading Pino-Saavedra, Yolando, Kurt Ranke, Italo Calvino, J. M. Synge, Violet Paget, Alan Bruford, Peter Christian Asbjørnsen, and Jørgen Moe. "Cymbeline." In Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories, edited by ARTESE CHARLOTTE, 241-99. PRINCETON; OXFORD: Princeton University Press, 2019. doi:10.2307/j.ctvg25434.11. External links Cymbeline – Texts, supplementary materials, and resources at Internet Shakespeare Editions. Cymbeline – from Project Gutenberg English Renaissance plays Shakespearean comedies Fiction set in Roman Britain British traditional history 1611 plays British plays adapted into films Uxoricide in fiction Plays set in the 1st century Tragicomedy plays