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:
“But cruel are the times when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumor
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and move.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Assume a virtue if you have it not.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)