Have you ever felt an emotion so deeply that you couldn’t begin to express it with words—only to feel it conveyed in a song? Music speaks to us through a vocabulary that predates written language and transcends all cultural barriers. Hollywood knows this, which is why films today usually feature a well-tuned soundtrack to help express characters and tell their stories. Shakespeare knew it too, which is why so many of his plays include songs that his audience would have already known...by heart.