Cloak and dagger
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Cloak and dagger is a term sometimes used to refer to situations involving espionage, mystery, or even assassination. The phrase is related to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which the title character stabs Polonius, who had been eavesdropping behind a tapestry.[citation needed]
In popular culture, it may also refer to:
- Cloak and Dagger (radio), an old-time radio program
- Cloak and Dagger (album), produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry.
- Cloak and Dagger (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero duo
- Cloak & Dagger, a 1984 children's spy film
- Cloak & Dagger (video game), an Atari arcade game released alongside the aforementioned film
- Cloak and Dagger (song), a song by Nik Kershaw
- Cloak and Dagger (society), a secret society at Georgetown University
- Cloak and Dagger (novel), a book by Tom Clancy
- Cloak and Dagger (1946 film), a Fritz Lang directed movie starring Gary Cooper
- Cloak-and-dagger film, a movie-genre with swashbuckling heroes
- Cloak and Dagger Man, a song by the British progressive rock band Camel, from the 1984 album Stationary Traveller.