See Meat Loaf and Cher, among other glorious musical momens of the eighties.
Oh, and 99 Luftballons!
And am very intrigued by the video for I’m Gonna Be by The Proclaimers – looks like it was part of the soundtrack for a film – can anyone enlighten me?
Although in a sense this was just a reaction to earlier writers, who lauded Shakespeare as someone who made good from humble origins, often quite excessively. In general, it betrays a lack of understanding of how things worked in the era. For whatever ideological reasons, people liked to project the 19th century back onto the 16th.