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)