Shakespeare's Songbook

Shakespeare's Songbook
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780393058895

Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.

Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs
Author: Catherine A. Henze
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317055993

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of singing per play to 3.44 songs and 29.75 lines of singing, a virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition, many of the songs became seemingly improvisatory—similar to Armin's personal style as an author and solo comedian. In order to study Armin's collaborative impact, this interdisciplinary book investigates the songs that have Renaissance music that could have been heard on Shakespeare's stage. They occur in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and The Tempest. In fact, Shakespeare's plays, as we have them, are not complete. They are missing the music that could have accompanied the plays’ songs. Significantly, Renaissance vocal music, far beyond just providing entertainment, was believed to alter the bodies and souls of both performers and auditors to agree with its characteristics, directly inciting passions from love to melancholy. By collaborating with early modern music editor and performing artist Lawrence Lipnik, Catherine Henze is able to provide new performance editions of seventeen songs, including spoken interruptions and cuts and rearrangement of the music to accommodate the dramatist's words. Next, Henze analyzes the complete songs, words and music, according to Renaissance literary and music primary sources, and applies the new information to interpretations of characters and scenes, frequently challenging commonly held literary assessments. The book is organized according to Armin's involvement with the plays, before, during, and after the comic actor joined Shakespeare's company. It offers readers the tools to interpret not only these songs, but also vocal music in dramas by other Renaissance playwrights. Moreover, Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs, written with non-specialized terminology, provides a gateway to new areas of research and interpretation in an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field for all interested in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Shakespeare's Musical Imagery

Shakespeare's Musical Imagery
Author: Christopher R. Wilson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847064957

A study of the meaning of Shakespeare's musical imagery in his plays and poems.

Shakespeare's cinema of love

Shakespeare's cinema of love
Author: R. S. White
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526107813

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period. Shakespeare's 'green world' has a close functional equivalent in 'tinseltown' and on 'the silver screen', as well as in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet continues to be an enduring source for romantic tragedy on screen. The nature of generic indebtedness has not gained recognition because it is elusive and not always easy to recognise. The book traces generic links between Shakespeare's comedies of love and screen genres such as romantic comedy, 'screwball' comedy and musicals, as well as clarifying the use of common conventions defining the genres, such as mistaken identity, 'errors', disguise and 'shrew-taming'. Speculative, challenging and entertaining, the book will appeal to those interested in Shakespeare, movies and the representation of love in narratives.

Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70

Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70
Author: Peter Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1177
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108278787

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the World Shakespeare Congress, held 400 years after Shakespeare's death, in July/August 2016 in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. The theme is 'Creating Shakespeare'.

The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare

The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
Author: R. Malcolm Smuts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191074160

The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in historical research on the early modern period that can inform close analysis of literature. Different sections examine political history at both the national and local levels; relationships between intellectual culture and the early modern political imagination; relevant aspects of religious and social history; and facets of the histories of architecture, the visual arts, and music. Topics treated include the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere' and its relationship to drama during Shakespeare's lifetime; the role of historical narratives in shaping the period's views on the workings of politics; attitudes about the role of emotion in social life; cultures of honour and shame and the rituals and literary forms through which they found expression; crime and murder; and visual expressions of ideas of moral disorder and natural monstrosity, in printed images as well as garden architecture.

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare
Author: Peter Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2005-11-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521850742

Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.

Looking at Shakespeare

Looking at Shakespeare
Author: Dennis Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001-12-20
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521785488

Most studies of the performance of Shakespeare's work concentrate on how the text has been played and what meanings have been conveyed through acting and interpretive directing. Dennis Kennedy demonstrates that much of audience response is determined by the visual representation, which is normally more immediate and direct than the aural conveyance of a text. Ranging widely over productions in Britain, Europe, Japan and North America, Kennedy gives a thorough account of the main scenographic movements of the century, investigating how the visual relates to Shakespeare on the stage. The second edition of this acclaimed history includes a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s, bringing the story up to date by drawing on examples from a wide international field. There are more than twenty new illustrations, some of them in colour (bringing the total number of illustrations to almost 200), and previous references have been updated.

Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots

Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots
Author: Cyril Ransome
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1890
Genre:
ISBN:

"Originally delivered as popular lectures."--Pref. Hamlet.--Julius Cæsar.--Macbeth.--King Lear.--Richard II.--Othello, the Moor of Venice.--Coriolanus.--The tempest.