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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is truly global in its scope, with ground-breaking studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed is equally extensive, embracing music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches in tackling their remits: some chapters investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed accounts of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the fascinating political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the Handbook provides a unique and impressively wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Christopher R. Wilson and Mervyn Cooke
Part I: Perspectives
1. 'Where should this music be?': Cataloguing Shakespearean Music
John Cunningham
2. 'Sing Willow, &c.': Willow Songs, Cultural Memory, and the Establishment of an 'Authentic' Shakespeare Music Canon
Linda Phyllis Austern
3. 'Let the sky rain potatoes': Music, Memory, and Sonic Nationhood in Shakespeare
Florence Hazrat
4. Gender and Music in Shakespeare
Katrine K. Wong
5. Tangled Relations: Shakespeare and Ballet
Nancy Isenberg
6. Shakespeare's Musical Time Signatures
Joseph M. Ortiz
7. Shakespeare and Folk
Adam Hansen
8. 'A noise of thunder': Shakespeare and Jazz
Stuart Hampton-Reeves
9. 'In comes Romeo, he's moaning': Shakespeare, Melancholy, and the Cult of the Rock Auteur since 1960
Howard Wilde
Part II: Music in Shakespearean Theatre
10. Early Encounters with Shakespeare Music: Experiencing Playhouse Musical Performance, 1590-1613
Simon Smith
11. Soundscapes of the Outdoor Playhouses, 1567-1608
Lucy Munro
12. Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and Songs for the Shakespearean Stage
Ross W. Duffin
13. 'Let's have a dance': Staging Shakespeare in Restoration London
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
14. 'What's in a name?': Authorship and Shakespeare Songs in the Eighteenth Century
John Cunningham
15. Music for Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Michael V. Pisani with Mervyn Cooke
16. Shakespeare in Sweden: Wilhelm Stenhammar and Modern Theatre Music
Leah Broad
17. Music for Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon: 'Revels, dances, masques, and merry hours'
Val Brodie
18. Historically Informed Experience: Music in Globe III
Bill Barclay
Part III: Shakespeare's Global Music
19. Living with Ghosts: Beethoven, Wagner, and Shakespeare
David Roberts
20. Shakespeare in Berlioz, Berlioz in Shakespeare
Julian Rushton
21. Shekspirschina: Nineteenth-Century Russian Musical Responses to Shakespeare
Philip Bullock
22. Shakespeare and Soviet Music
Michelle Assay
23. Shakespearean Concert Songs in Victorian England
Christopher R. Wilson
24. English Shakespeare Song in UK Concerts, 1901-1951
Pam Waddington Muse
25. Musical Response to Shakespeare in Greater China: Mandopop and Cantopop
Katrine K. Wong
26. Shakespeare, Music, and South Africa: From Afrikaner Titus to Township Opera
Mervyn Cooke
Part IV: Shakespeare as Music Drama
27. Dramaturgy of the Shakespearean Libretto
Pavel Drábek
28. Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century Italian Operatic Stage
William Germano
29. Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siècle London
Adrian Streete
30. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the Operatic Stage
Klára Skrobánková
31. Shakespeare and Opera in the Czech Lands
Jirí Kopecký
32. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare: Verdi's Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres
Sárka Havlícková Kysová
33. Transition and Transformation in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Katherine R. Larson and Lawrence Wiliford
34. From Hal to Henry: Wartime Masculinity in Holst's At the Board's Head
Michael Graham
35. Otherness and Strange Sounds: Operatic and Vocal Adaptations of The Tempest
Annette Simonis
36. 'If It's Good Enough For Shakespeare, It's Good Enough For Us': Shakespeare and Musical Theatre
Ben Francis
Part V: Music in Shakespearean Films
37. Sonic Spectacle in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score to Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Nina Penner
38. 'Genuine attempts at enlarging the scope of film': William Walton's and Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare Trilogy
Brian Hoyle
39. Reshaping Shakespeare: Dmitri Shostakovich's Music for Grigori Kozintsev's Film Adaptations of Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971)
Fiona Ford
40. Music in Akira Kurosawa's Filmic Adaptations of Shakespeare: Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and Ran (1985)
Timothy Koozin
41. Rhizomatic Harmonies: Music in the Shakespeare Films of Vishal Bhardwaj
Amy Rodgers
42. 'More hits than you could possibly imagine': Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet
Jan Butler
43. 'Let your indulgence set me free': Elliot Goldenthal's Music for the Shakespeare Films of Julie Taymor
Mervyn Cooke
Index of Shakespeare's Works
General Index
