Yes, Shakespeare references pop up everywhere, even in
true crime books.
Freed To Kill: The True
Story Of Serial Murderer Larry Eyler, written by Gera-Lind Kolarik with
Wayne Klatt, contains a couple of references. The first is to
Macbeth, with Kolarik writing: “He was
now a familiar figure on the street with his full beard and broad forehead, and
he was devoting most of his time to supervising and training at the police
academy. By now he could sense happenings in the hangouts as if by the pricking
of his thumbs” (p. 26). That of course is a reference to the Second Witch’s
famous lines, “By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicket this way comes.”
The other reference is actually in a footnote at the end in the section titled “Constitutional
Comment”: “George Anastaplo…has published several books, including
The Artist As Thinker: From Shakespeare to
Joyce (1983)” (p. 422).
Freed To Kill
was originally published in 1990. The edition I read was the Avon Books
printing, first published in 1992.
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