Shakespeare, He's In The Alley (And In The Lyrics)

And Robin Williams had a good version of Elmer Fudd covering this song...

 

The "darkness" part is Dylan's addition (and maybe with some biblical resonance), but the phrase "break of noon" is the usual English translation of the title of Paul Claudel's 1906 play, Partage de Midi, which maybe Dylan knew, maybe not.

L.

 

Sting - Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)

Every place around the world it seemed the same
Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Everybody wants to look the other way
When something wicked this way comes


Sting (The Police) - Consider Me Gone

Roses have thorns, and shining waters mud
And cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks of the wrongs we have done

Sonnet 35 (opening)

No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.


Sting (album title) - Nothing Like The Sun
Sting - Sister Moon (from Nothing Like The Sun album)

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My hunger for her explains everything I've done

Sonnet 130 (opening line)

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun



Sting/Shakespeare - Like A Beautiful Smile (Sacred Love album)

Lyrics incorporate Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

 

man it took 3 pages for someone to say this..............
Don't forget Bryan Ferry did the whole 'summer's day' sonnet on the tribute to Lady Diana.

 

Sonnet 18 from the Alphaville Sessions...

 

Not to threadcrap. Shakespeare's influence on the rock stage. The red coat is a "period piece."

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him."

 

And Joni swiped Willie the Shake from Lord Buckley (1955 - George Harrison is heard to recite some of this in a 1974 interview) or from Ken Kesey (1962 - Sometimes a Great Notion).


Was it something that somebody said?
Mama I know we broke the rules.
The Band - Ophelia

 

Fantastic post.