Possible Clues:

• Dickens's '___ of Two Cities'
• "And thereby hangs __": Shak
• '... ___ told by an idiot, full of sound and fury ...'
• 'Ben-Hur: ___ of the Christ'
• Dickens' title beginning
• '... -- told by an idiot'
• '... ___ told by an idiot': Macbeth
• What thereby hangs?
• ''__ of Love and Darkness'' (Amos Oz memoir)
• Thereby hangs ___