{"id":4382,"date":"2013-06-28T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2017-08-20T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T21:03:23","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-we-love-the-plays-of-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4382","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: We Love the Plays of Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the last in a series<\/a> of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans.<\/p>\n

So far, we’ve had one parody for each of Shakespeare’s 38 plays and one for the sonnets. We finish the Shakespeare Top 40 with a tribute to all of the plays, one last time.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

We Love the Plays of Shakespeare<\/strong>
\nsung to the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel<\/p>\n

(With appreciation to everyone who has followed along on the journey…)<\/p>\n

Harry, Suffolk, Somerset,
\nRichard Plantagenet;
\nWarwick, Edward, Margaret, Rutland,
\nYounger Lord Clifford;
\nLord John Talbot, Tony Woodeville,
\nDuke of Bedford, Joan La Pucelle;
\nDuke of Clarence, Tower Princes,
\nRichard the Third…<\/p>\n

Antipholus, Dromio,
\nBalthazar, Angelo;
\nTitus gets Tamora by
\nBaking her kids in a pie;
\nTranio, Petruchio,
\nKatharina, Widow;
\nProteus and Valentine have
\nBid Verona goodbye…<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare,
\nJumping off the pages,
\nBurning up the stages.
\nWe love the plays of Shakespeare.
\nFirst, we learned to read them.
\nNow, we go to see them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don Armado, French Princess,
\nCostard and Holofernes;
\nRomeo\u2019s Apothecary,
\nJuliet\u2019s Nurse;
\nGaunt John, he passed on,
\nHenry\u2019s back and Dick\u2019s gone;
\nQuince, Flute, Snout, Snug,
\nBottom\u2019s got a curse…<\/p>\n

King John, Pope, France,
\nBastard\u2019s got a second chance;
\nShylock and Antonio,
\nPortia and Bassanio;
\nBardolph, Boar\u2019s Head,
\nPrince Hal, Hotspur dead;
\nTavern Hostess, Lord Chief Justice,
\nHenry on his deathbed…<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare,
\nJumping off the pages,
\nBurning up the stages.
\nWe love the plays of Shakespeare.
\nFirst, we learned to read them.
\nNow, we go to see them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Benedick, Beatrice,
\nDogberry and Verges;
\nCambridge, Scroop and Grey,
\nFight on St. Crispin\u2019s Day;
\nCassius, Cicero,
\nJulius Caesar, Cato;
\nDuke Senior, Jacques,
\nPoems posted on the trees…<\/p>\n

O, O, O…<\/p>\n

Olivia, Antonio,
\nToby Belch, Malvolio;
\nOphelia, Claudius,
\nHamlet kills Polonius;
\nFalstaff once adored
\nMistress Page and Mistress Ford;
\nAgamemnon, Pandarus,
\nCressida and Troilus…<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare,
\nJumping off the pages,
\nBurning up the stages.
\nWe love the plays of Shakespeare.
\nFirst, we learned to read them.
\nNow, we go to see them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Helena for Bertram fell,
\nAll\u2019s Well that Ends Well;
\nAngelo, Claudio,
\n\u201cFriar\u201d Duke Vincentio;
\nDesdemona, Othello,
\nDuke, Iago, Cassio;
\nKent\u2019s stand, Lear\u2019s Fool,
\nEdmund\u2019s death, Edgar\u2019s rule;
\nThree Witches, two Macbeths,
\nScottish spirits come unsex;
\nAntony, Cleo P.,
\nWho else would you want to see?<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare,
\nJumping off the pages,
\nBurning up the stages.
\nWe love the plays of Shakespeare.
\nFirst, we learned to read them.
\nNow, we go to see them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marcius, Cominius,
\nVolumnia, Aufidius;
\nCupid, Lucius,
\nTimon, Flavius;
\nGower, Thaliard, Pericles,
\nAntiochus, Simonides;
\nPosthumous is shipped to Rome,
\nIachimo\u2019s gone to his home…<\/p>\n

Autolycus, Leontes,
\nPerdita, Polixenes;
\nStephano, Trinculo,
\nShip, wreck, Prospero;
\nHenry starts a second life,
\nAnne Boleyn\u2019s his second wife;
\nKinsmen our guy partnered for;
\nMay have helped with Thomas More…<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare,
\nJumping off the pages,
\nBurning up the stages.
\nWe love the plays of Shakespeare.
\nAnd where we have gone,
\nThe play will start anon,
\nAnon, anon, anon, anon, anon, anon, anon…<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare,
\nJumping off the pages,
\nBurning up the stages.
\nWe love the plays of Shakespeare.
\nFirst, we learned to read them.
\nNow, we go to see them.<\/p>\n

We love the plays of Shakespeare!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hat tip to Shakespeare Online<\/a> for the chronology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can click to read all 40 song parodies here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the last in a series of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. So far, we’ve had one parody for each of Shakespeare’s 38 plays and one for the sonnets. We finish the Shakespeare Top 40 with a tribute to all of the plays, one last time. Enjoy! We Love the Plays of Shakespeare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,74,57,62,91,113,12,6,122,58,40,52,76,123,124,48,125,78,92,117,3,53,118,126,93,119,42,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-list","category-antony-and-cleopatra","category-as-you-like-it","category-cymbeline","category-hamlet","category-histories","category-humor","category-international","category-julius-caesar","category-king-lear","category-list","category-macbeth","category-measure-for-measure","category-merchant-of-venice","category-much-ado","category-music","category-othello","category-parody","category-richard-iii","category-romeo-and-juliet","category-shakespeare","category-special-feature","category-taming-of-the-shrew","category-tempest","category-the-dream","category-plantagenets","category-the-tudors","category-twelfth-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}