dvimont wrote:Also, I haven't yet researched to see what other settings of Shakespeare songs there may be in the public domain!
Given that there might be impediments to the use of
my settings of Shakespeare songs in a collection (like, I'm not dead yet

), I put the search for other such settings to the top of my "to do" list.
Fortunately, my wife was helping me, and she found this potential treasure trove:
FIFTY SHAKSPERE SONGS:
https://archive.org/details/fiftyshakspereso00vinc
Yes, that is how it was spelled in the book's title, published in 1906, which went with a variation of the spelling of the Bard's name that was used during his lifetime. This collection includes settings that date all the way back to the 1590s!
I'll be looking through these settings to see if some might be usable (although I would still likely have to make arrangements of these, which I would in turn place in the public domain, which might put us right back in the same predicament).