You could probably make a whole album just based on Shakespeare characters. In fact, I'm going to make a playlist with Shakespeare inspired songs. Will post it later.
Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (sorry, a Shakespeare one, T1CR, BUT I LOVE THAT SONG)
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
Don Quixote - Nik Kershaw
Billy Budd - Morrissey
Hey Orpheus/Oh Eurydice - Arcade Fire
Adam Raised a Cain/Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen (the Bible's still literature, right?)
Miss Macbeth/I Thought I'd Write to Juliet/Romeo's Seance - Elvis Costello
King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar
Things Fall Apart - The Roots (not a character, but I'm going to stretch it)
On that note : 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead and Soma - The Strokes/Smashing Pumpkins both reference literature, but not characters.
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others mentions Antony and Cleopatra
Sheila Take a Bow refers to playwright Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste of Honey, which Morrissey is obsessed with.
Shakespeare's Sister as well - refers to Viriginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own, in which she imagines that Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he was, who couldn't get her plays performed or published because she was a woman. She ends up committing suicide. Given the lyrics of the song, it seems likely that's what it's referring to.
This is why doing Literature at uni is awesome!
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