In my book The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles, I argue that the Beatles phenomenon can be traced back to the great English Romantic poets William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This clip shows that perhaps I didn't go back far enough: here are the Beatles performing the Pyramus and Thisbe play-within-a-play from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream:
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