How to Study Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A musical evening will be found a most enjoyable variation in the routine of the club. All Shake speare's songs, with some of the sonnets and scattered passages in the plays that are not strictly of a lyrical character, have been set to music. Of some of the songs there have been many settings, dating from Shakespeare's own day down to the present time.

Under the greenwood tree, in As You Like It, for instance, has nine settings Blow, blow, thou win ter wind, in the same play, twelve Orpheus with his lute, in Henry VIII, twenty-two Who is Silvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, nineteen.

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