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  1. www.gq-magazine.co.uk › article › taylor-swiftTaylor Swift: all the literary references in The Tortured ...

    Apr 19, 2024 · The song also partially references Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth's slow descent into madness after being much of the driving force of the play.Swift remoulds the line “Who would have ...

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  3. www.officialcharts.com › chart-news › hit-songs-thatHit songs that reference William Shakespeare - Official Charts

    • Taylor Swift – Love Story. With some not-so-subtle references to The Bard’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, it seems only right to start with Taylor’s breakout single Love Story, which sent her to Number 2 in 2009.
    • Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet. This track became Dire Straits’ second Top 10 single when it reached Number 8 in 1981. Another single directly referencing the play throughout with character names, Frontman Mark Knopfler took inspiration from Shakespeare in this song about unrequited love.
    • Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. Another breakout single featuring a reference to Shakespeare’s tragic love story (spotting a theme yet?)
    • One True Voice - Shakespeare’s (Way With) Words. “If I had Shakespeare’s way with words, I would write a sonnet, put your name upon it” is truly a lyric for the ages.

  4. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › articlesPop Goes Shakespeare... The Bard in Modern Music - BBC

    • Taylor Swift - Love Story. Balconies, a remonstrative father, star-crossed lovers... this is a love story unmistakably based on Shakespeare's most famous tale of teenage love.
    • Elvis Costello - Miss Macbeth. Could we ever see the ruthless and powerful Lady Macbeth in a different light? Elvis Costello tries his hand at making this happen.
    • Supergrass - Richard III. More than a decade before the rediscovery of the car park king, Oxford Indie-Rock band Supergrass had paid homage to Shakespeare’s portrayal of a scheming, underhand monarch in their second single from their album 'In It For The Money'.
    • Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness. When Lady Macbeth says "yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way" she says it with a distaste, accusing her husband of being too soft and unambitious; and not made of sterner stuff like herself.

  5. www.folger.edu › taylor-swift-and-shakespeareTaylor Swift and Shakespeare - Folger Shakespeare Library

    Jul 23, 2024 · Louis Dujardin. Shakespeare resting on the grass. Print, 19th Century. Folger Shakespeare Library. In the spring of 2024, Harvard English professor Stephanie Burt taught a course on “Taylor Swift and Her World,” in which she thought about 20 students would enroll. Instead, as she explains in “ I Taught the Taylor Swift Class at Harvard.

  6. www.buzzfeed.com › taylorswiftmidnights › evermoreWho Said It — Taylor Swift Or Shakespeare? - BuzzFeed

    Sep 9, 2022 · Taylor Swift. Via Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic. "I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones. in a faith-forgotten land". Shakespeare.

  7. www.classical-music.com › features › worksThese 11 Shakespeare plays have inspired some of the greatest ...

    Romeo and Juliet in music. This tragic love story has inspired some truly great music, along with its share of less successful pieces. One of the earliest settings is a singspiel by the Czech composer Georg Benda, whose 1776 Romeo und Julie, loosely based on the play, was one of his most popular pieces.

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  9. www.reddit.com › r › shakespeareMacbeth/My Tears Ricochet Comparison : r/shakespeare - Reddit

    The funeral imagery permeates the entire song, making for a literary masterpiece with such lurid detail. Comparisons of the masters (Taylor Swift’s life’s work) to a literal life seem to be where the spirit meets the bone—as her legacy is as stake. In Macbeth, the titular character (Macbeth) and Banquo gain great heroism in a war in Scotland.