Das Schaffel von Avon/Shakespeare Samples Anyone?

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I was just rocking out to Robag Wruhme's "Wuzzlebud KK" and was struck by the vocal samples from Ophelia's mad speeches in "Hamlet" (as I am right now in the act of working on the "Hamlet" chapter of my dissertation it's kind of hitting the spot); so I'm wondering . . . who else has sampled Shakespeare?

― Drew Daniel, Monday, 4 October 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, okay. I guess the answer is . . . nobody. Thanks!

― Drew Daniel, Monday, 4 October 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Does "sampled Shakespeare" in this case also mean "utilised a passage of Shakespeare's text in one's lyrics"? or does it have to be only samples from plays/films?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point, let's expand it to incorporating quotes into lyrics . . .

My guess is that, for all his canonical centrality, Shakespeare actually isn't borrowed from directly all that often. I can think of way more borrowings from Blake off the top of my head than Shakespeare (ie. Coil in "Love's Secret Domain", for example). Maybe Shakespeare is just a bit too powerful and even the teensiest bit will overwhelm Joe and Jane Lyricist's own writing?

― Drew Daniel, Monday, 4 October 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Okeh... Re incorporating quotes (though in translation in this case), the first thing that jumped to my mind was a song by the Estonian band Metro Luminal, who utilise one of the sonnets (sorry, unable right now to refer to the right verse)

And just a moment ago, checking what my colleagues had played in their Fantaasia shows lately on ER's Klassikaraadio, I saw this -- Nitin Sawhney/William Shakespeare, Nitin Sawhney. Waiting
(O Mistress Mine) (haven't heard that piece myself, tho)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my, how did this slip my memory -- When Love speaks, a various artists compilation that came out a coupla years ago, has - besides recited texts galore - quite a few songs that set William's verse to music :) -- But then again those songs go beyond "sampling", of course... :(

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

drew-
didn't coil use some of the sonnets in the soundtrack to "the angelic conversation"? read by dame judi dench if i recall correctly...
-jon

― jwd, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The end of 'I Am The Walrus' has a whole chunk of King Lear.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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