| CE II.ii.190 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to himself, of Adriana] she moves me for her theme |
| Cor I.i.218 | [Martius to Menenius, of the rabble] It will in time / Win upon power and throw forth greater themes / For insurrection's arguing [i.e. for rebels to use as justification] |
| Ham V.i.262 | [Hamlet to all, of Laertes] I will fight with him upon this theme |
| Mac I.iii.128 | [Macbeth to himself] Two truths are told / As happy prologues to the swelling Act / Of the imperial theme |
| MW V.v.159 | [Falstaff to all] Well, I am your theme |
| TC IV.v.181 | [Menelaus to Hector, of Helen] Name her not now, sir; she's a deadly theme |
| TC IV.v.30 | [Ulysses to himself] O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns |
| Tem II.i.6 | [Gonzalo to Alonso] The masters of some merchant ... / Have just our theme of woe |