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:
“When you depart from me, sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Lay her i’th’earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What need we have any friends, if we should ne’er have need of ‘em? They were the most needless creatures living, if we should ne’er have use for ‘em.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)