{"id":4421,"date":"2013-07-01T17:41:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?page_id=4421"},"modified":"2013-07-01T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T22:47:03","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/shakespeare-song-parody","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A song parody is when the words to a song are changed, often for comedic effect.<\/p>\n<p>Here on the blog, a Shakespeare Song Parody is when the words to a well-known song are changed to be about Shakespeare.  So &#8220;Girl on Fire&#8221; by Alicia Keys becomes &#8220;Prince of Tyre&#8221; for <em>Pericles<\/em>, and the lyrics are modified to fit.<\/p>\n<p>There are 40 such parodies featured here: one for each of Shakespeare\u2019s 38 plays, one for the sonnets, and a final tribute to all of the plays together.<\/p>\n<p>I think the parodies are best enjoyed if you read along while listening to the original, but it isn&#8217;t strictly necessary if you know the song being parodied.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy them!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/parody\">Jump right in!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song parody is when the words to a song are changed, often for comedic effect. Here on the blog, a Shakespeare Song Parody is when the words to a well-known song are changed to be about Shakespeare. So &#8220;Girl on Fire&#8221; by Alicia Keys becomes &#8220;Prince of Tyre&#8221; for Pericles, and the lyrics are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4421\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}