Dante's DreamDante Gabriel Rossetti, a famous poet, painter, designer, translator (not Dante Alighieri who lived centuries earlier) created the paintings in this video. One amongst them called: 'My Lady Greensleeves'
A tune by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 as: 'A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves.' No copy of that printing is known. It appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as: 'A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves.' It remains debatable whether this suggests that an old tune of 'Greensleeves' was in circulation, or which one our familiar tune is.
The widely-believed legend is that it was composed by King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Anne, the youngest daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her...