SHAKESPEARE

Of course, Steve Hackett made a 'Midsummer Night' album in a similar style of Joaquin Rodrigo and his Concierto de Aranjuez.

I'm sure there must be more, but I can't remember now.

 Ah, yes. Billy Jigglejavelin:

"Home from work, our Juliette clears her morning meal....

Romeo locks his basement flat, and scurries up the stairs...."

Can't think of any prog Dickens references, but I know of both in non-prog music....

"Pull Me Under" from Dream Theater's Images and Words is about Hamlet.

"The current explanation goes that it was inspired by Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Prince Hamlet swore vengeance on King Claudius for murdering his father, the former King, and then marrying his mother, still Queen. Hamlet's famous Soliloquy was the passage in which the conflict in Hamlet's mind is detailed, and the second verse of Pull Me Under coincides pretty thoroughly with it. The very end of the song James can be heard singing this line from Hamlet:

"Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt."

Furthermore, after seeing the video, in an interview, Portnoy said "Who the hell was that wolfman guy in the video anyway? We had written it based on something else entirely." Portnoy noted that while Moore did not write PMU about Hamlet specifically, he DID write PMU about what Hamlet was about. Same themes, ideas, etc."

This is from http://www.dtfaq.com.

dude wrote: interestning!! i know the song but did not know the connection By the way proggers "THE TEMPEST" was used as the basis(or at least the inspiration) for a very famous science fiction film from the 50,s does anyone know THE NAME OF THAT FILM??

Of course:

The great, the one and only FORBIDDEN PLANET, starring Robbie the Robot and Lt Frank Drebin himself!