List of Songs Based On Poems - William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

  • "Under the Greenwood Tree" by Donovan
  • The album When Love Speaks features several of Shakespeare's works set to music:
    • "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" performed by Rufus Wainwright (Sonnet 29)
    • "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done" performed by Keb' Mo' (Sonnet 35)
    • "The quality of mercy is not strained" performed by Des'ree (The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, scene 1)
    • "The Willow Song" performed by Barbara Bonney (Othello, Act IV, scene 3)
    • "Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly" performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Sonnet 8)
    • "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" performed by Bryan Ferry (Sonnet 18)
  • Two pieces of Shakespeare's plays were set to music by Loreena McKennitt:
    • "Cymbeline" by Loreena McKennitt (Cymbeline, Act V, scene 2)
    • "Prospero's Speech" by Loreena McKennitt (The Tempest, Act V, scene 1)
  • "O Mistress Mine" by Emilie Autumn- Album: A Bit O' this & That (Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III)
  • "Double Trouble", a song from the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack, has rearranged lyrics taken entirely from Macbeth (Act IV, scene I)

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Famous quotes by william shakespeare:

    “Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A thousand moral paintings I can show
    That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune’s
    More pregnantly than words.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “You, mistress,
    That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
    And keeps the gate of hell!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Our wooing doth not end like an old play.
    Jack hath not Jill.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the
    tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored
    taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous
    to demand the time of the day.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)