Excerpt from An Index to the Songs, Snatches, and Passages in Shakespeare Which Have Been Set to Music The accompanying trifle is published in the hope that it may supply what has been felt by the compiler to be a desideratum not only to students and lovers of Shakespeare but also to all who are interested in the wedding of appropriate melodies to 'immortal verse.' It should, at any rate, serve to indicate at once the extent of the poet's lyrical power and the wonderful attraction which the intrinsic music of his verse has had for the artist who seeks to 'all-express' himself in the ordered succession of harmonious sounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.