Shakespearean Women

by Adel Verna Heinrich (b. 1926)

[No title]

Language: English

    Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
    Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
    Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.
    Round about the cauldron go;
    In the poison'd entrails throw.
    Toad, that under cold stone
    Days and nights has thirty-one
    Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
    Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
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Text Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by Adel Verna Heinrich (b. 1926), op. 11 (1979), first performed 1979 [ soprano, alto, piccolo, 2 flutes, violin, piano ]

Confirmed with The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Second Series, ed. by Kenneth Muir, London, Methuen Drama, 1951.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Total word count: 226