Description
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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChristopher R. Wilson and Mervyn CookePart I: Perspectives1. 'Where should this music be?': Cataloguing Shakespearean MusicJohn Cunningham2. 'Sing Willow, &c.': Willow Songs, Cultural Memory, and the Establishment of an 'Authentic' Shakespeare Music CanonLinda Phyllis Austern3. 'Let the sky rain potatoes': Music, Memory, and Sonic Nationhood in ShakespeareFlorence Hazrat4. Gender and Music in ShakespeareKatrine K. Wong5. Tangled Relations: Shakespeare and BalletNancy Isenberg6. Shakespeare's Musical Time SignaturesJoseph M. Ortiz7. Shakespeare and FolkAdam Hansen8. 'A noise of thunder': Shakespeare and JazzStuart Hampton-Reeves9. 'In comes Romeo, he's moaning': Shakespeare, Melancholy, and the Cult of the Rock Auteur since 1960Howard WildePart II: Music in Shakespearean Theatre10. Early Encounters with Shakespeare Music: Experiencing Playhouse Musical Performance, 1590-1613Simon Smith11. Soundscapes of the Outdoor Playhouses, 1567-1608Lucy Munro12. Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and Songs for the Shakespearean StageRoss W. Duffin13. 'Let's have a dance': Staging Shakespeare in Restoration LondonAmanda Eubanks Winkler14. 'What's in a name?': Authorship and Shakespeare Songs in the Eighteenth CenturyJohn Cunningham15. Music for Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century American TheatreMichael V. Pisani with Mervyn Cooke16. Shakespeare in Sweden: Wilhelm Stenhammar and Modern Theatre MusicLeah Broad17. Music for Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon: 'Revels, dances, masques, and merry hours'Val Brodie18. Historically Informed Experience: Music in Globe IIIBill BarclayPart III: Shakespeare's Global Music19. Living with Ghosts: Beethoven, Wagner, and ShakespeareDavid Roberts20. Shakespeare in Berlioz, Berlioz in ShakespeareJulian Rushton21. Shekspirschina: Nineteenth-Century Russian Musical Responses to ShakespearePhilip Bullock22. Shakespeare and Soviet MusicMichelle Assay23. Shakespearean Concert Songs in Victorian EnglandChristopher R. Wilson24. English Shakespeare Song in UK Concerts, 1901-1951Pam Waddington Muse25. Musical Response to Shakespeare in Greater China: Mandopop and CantopopKatrine K. Wong26. Shakespeare, Music, and South Africa: From Afrikaner Titus to Township OperaMervyn CookePart IV: Shakespeare as Music Drama27. Dramaturgy of the Shakespearean LibrettoPavel Drábek28. Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century Italian Operatic StageWilliam Germano29. Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siècle LondonAdrian Streete30. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the Operatic StageKlára Skrobánková31. Shakespeare and Opera in the Czech LandsJirí Kopecký32. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare: Verdi's Macbeth and Otello in Czech TheatresSárka Havlícková Kysová33. Transition and Transformation in Britten's A Midsummer Night's DreamKatherine R. Larson and Lawrence Wiliford34. From Hal to Henry: Wartime Masculinity in Holst's At the Board's Head Michael Graham35. Otherness and Strange Sounds: Operatic and Vocal Adaptations of The TempestAnnette Simonis36. 'If It's Good Enough For Shakespeare, It's Good Enough For Us': Shakespeare and Musical TheatreBen FrancisPart V: Music in Shakespearean Films37. Sonic Spectacle in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score to Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)Nina Penner38. 'Genuine attempts at enlarging the scope of film': William Walton's and Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare TrilogyBrian Hoyle39. Reshaping Shakespeare: Dmitri Shostakovich's Music for Grigori Kozintsev's Film Adaptations of Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971)Fiona Ford40. Music in Akira Kurosawa's Filmic Adaptations of Shakespeare: Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and Ran (1985)Timothy Koozin41. Rhizomatic Harmonies: Music in the Shakespeare Films of Vishal BhardwajAmy Rodgers42. 'More hits than you could possibly imagine': Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet Jan Butler43. 'Let your indulgence set me free': Elliot Goldenthal's Music for the Shakespeare Films of Julie TaymorMervyn CookeIndex of Shakespeare's WorksGeneral Index
