Shakespeares plays: Holbornes Hearts Ease (the Honie Suckle), Voices of Music

We continue our celebration of Shakespeare s 400th anniversary with music from the play Romeo and Juliet: Anthony Holborne s setting of HeartsEase, also known as the Holborne was well known in London, and published a wide variety of arrangements of popular songs in his printed collection of Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs of 1599. Although the diarist Samuel Pepys wrote in 1662 it is a play of itself the worst that I ever heard in my life, the work became one of Shakesp