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Shakespeare, Music and Performance

Shakespeare, Music and Performance

  • Editor: Barclay, Bill

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$81.00

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Contents

  • Introduction David Lindley and Bill Barclay;
  • 1. Theatre bands and their music in Shakespeare's London William Lyons;
  • 2. The many performance spaces for music at Jacobean indoor playhouses Simon Smith;
  • 3. In practice I. Original practices and historical music in the Globe's London and Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III Claire van Kampen;
  • 4. Ophelia's songspace: elite female musical performance and propriety on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage Paul L. Faber;
  • 5. Jangling bells inside and outside the playhouse Katherine Hunt;
  • 6. Music, its histories, and Shakespearean (inter-)theatricality in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle Linda Phyllis Austern;
  • 7. Changing musical practices in the Shakespearean playhouse, 1620-42 Lucy Munro;
  • 8. In practice II. Adapting a Restoration adaptation: The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island Elizabeth Kenny;
  • 9. The reception and re-use of Thomas Arne's Shakespeare songs of 1740/1 John Cunningham;
  • 10. Processing with Shakespeare on the eighteenth-century London stage Michael Burden;
  • 11. The music for Henry V in Victorian productions by Kean and Calvert Val Brodie;
  • 12. In practice III. Listening to the pictures: an interview with composer Stephen Warbeck Bill Barclay;
  • 13. Film, music and Shakespeare: Walton and Shostakovich Peter Holland;
  • 14. Music in contemporary Shakespearean cinema Ramona Wray;
  • 15. The politics of popular music in contemporary Shakespearean performance Adam Hansen;
  • 16. In practice IV. 'Sounds like': making music on Shakespeare's stage today Jon Trenchard and Carol Chillington Rutter;
  • 17. Music in the 2012 Globe-to-Globe Festival Bill Barclay; Index.