William Shakespeare

Birth Year:	1564
Death Year:	1616
Notes:	Not only a great English playwright, but the greatest playwright in the English language. Reflecting upon the achievement of his peer and sometimes rival, Ben Jonson wrote of Shakespeare, “He was not of an age, but for all time.”

Title	Alternate Title(s)	Composer(s)
A Poor Soul Sat Sighing		Carmichael, Mary Grant
A Shakespearian Madrigal (Sigh No More Ladies)		Thiman, Eric Harding
An Let Me the Cannikin Clink		Hamilton, David
Bird of Dawning		Challender, Jeremy
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind		Johanson, Sven-Eric
Caliban's Song		Hamilton, David
Come Away, Come Away Death		MacFarren, [Sir] George Alexander
Come Unto These Yellow Sands	Opus 39, No. 2	Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney
Ding, Dong, Bell		Gross, Eric
Fancies 1		Johanson, Sven-Eric
Fancy		Johanson, Sven-Eric
Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun		Gardner, John Linton
Fie on Sinful Fantasy		Shearing, George
Four Shakespeare Songs		Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko
Full Fathom Five		Wood, Charles
Grabbed Age and Youth		Gardner, John Linton
Hark! Hark! the Lark		Gardner, John Linton
Hark! Hark! the Lark	Hark! Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gates Sings	Schubert, Franz (Peter)
Hey Ho the Wind and the Rain		Shearing, George
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps		Young, Robert H.
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps		Leslie, Henry David
In Windsor Forest		Vaughan Williams, Ralph
It Was a Lover and His Lass		Crocker, Emily; Leavitt, John
It Was a Lover and His Lass		Schickele, Peter
It Was a Lover and His Lass		Rutter, John
It Was a Lover and His Lass		Vaughan Williams, Ralph
It Was a Lover and His Lass		Shearing, George
King Stephen		Hamilton, David
Let Fall the Windows of Mine Eyes		Mealor, Paul
Live With Me and Be My Love		Shearing, George