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Full Fathom Five

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5508036
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Full Fathom Five may refer to:

Shakespeare

The verse passage "Ariel's Song" from Shakespeare's The Tempest

"Full Fathom Five", a 1611 setting by Robert Johnson of Shakespeare's lyrics

"Full Fathom Five", a setting of "Ariel's Song" in Three Shakespeare Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

Full Fathom Five (film), 1990

"Full Fathom Five", a 1953 episode of the TV series Victory at Sea

"Full Fathom Five," a 1968 episode of the original Hawaii Five-O

"Full Fathom Five", a 1976 episode of TV series Movin' On

"Full Fathom Five", an episode of 1972 TV series The Adventurer

"Full Fathom Five", an episode of 2018 TV series Lodge 49

Music

Full Fathom Five (band)

Full Fathom Five (album), by Clutch, 2008

Full Fathom Five: Video Field Recordings, by Clutch, 2008

Full Fathom Five, a 1994 album by Sub Sub

"Full Fathom Five", a song by Marianne Faithfull from the 1965 album Come My Way

"Full Fathom Five", a song by Pete Seeger from the 1966 album Dangerous Songs!?

"Full Fathom Five", a song by Susie Ibarra, Wadada Leo Smith and John Zorn from the 2003 album 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8

"Full Fathom Five", a song by Seaman Dan from the 2003 album Sailing Home

"Full Fathom Five", a song by Méav Ní Mhaolchatha from the 2002 album Silver Sea

"Full Fathom Five", an art song from The Michael Nyman Songbook, 1992

"Full Fathom Five", a B-side variation of "Elephant Stone" by The Stone Roses, 1988

"Full Fathom Five", a 1922 composition by Martin Shaw

"Full Fathom Five", a 1923 song composition by Ernest Walker

"Full Fathom Five", a 2014 composition by Errollyn Wallen for the Melodia Women's Choir

"Full Fathom Five", a 1972 cantata by Shena Fraser

"Full Fathom Five", a 2014 choral composition by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

"Full Fathom Five", a 2012 opera composition by Thomas Adès

"Full Fathom Five", a c. 1890 part song composition by Charles Wood

"Full Fathom Five", a song composition by John Ireland (1879–1962)

"Full Fathom Five", a 2019 song by Masayoshi Soken for the game Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

Literature

Full Fathom Five, a 1956 novel by Hugh Sykes Davies

Full Fathom Five, a 1958 novel by Lew Dietz

Full Fathom Five, a 1965 novel by John Stewart Carter

Full Fathom Five, a 1968 novel by J. E. Macdonnell in the Horwitz Naval Series

Full Fathom Five, a 2003 novel by Kate Humphrey

Full Fathom Five, a 2014 novel by Max Gladstone

Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father’s Legacy, a 2013 book by Gordon Waterman Chaplin

Full Fathom Five, a 1993 poetry collection John Kinsella

"Full Fathom Five", a poem by Sylvia Plath from The Colossus and Other Poems, 1960

"Full Fathom Five", a poem by Samuel Menashe

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Full Fathom Five, a 1947 painting by Jackson Pollock

"Full Fathom Five" (audio drama), in the Doctor Who Unbound series

Full Fathom Five, a work public art in Somerset

Full Fathom Five, a 1932 play by Lewis Gielgud

The Fathom Five Matter, a five-part episode of the radio program Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, which originally aired in February 1956. In the case, the Fathom Five is the name of a boat which sank under mysterious circumstances. The original quote is referenced throughout the case.

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