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Shakespeare and Music (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare and Music (Hardcover)
Series: Arden Critical Companions
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Music permeates Shakespeare's plays. This comprehensive study
explores the variety of its theatrical functions, situating them in
the context of the Early Modern period's understanding of
music.From the trumpet calls which animate the battle scenes of the
histories and tragedies to the songs which inflect the moods of the
comedies and romances, Shakespeare experiments throughout his
career with music's potential to contribute to the effect of his
dramas. David Lindley sets the musical scene of Shakespeare's
England, outlining the period's theoretical understanding of music
and discussing the experience of music heard in the streets,
alehouses, private residences, courts and theatres, which an
audience brought with them to the Globe and Blackfriars. Music
could be praised as a symbol of divine and political harmony, or
vilified as an incitement to lust and effeminacy; it could heal and
cure, or fuel drunken rebellion. Focusing throughout on the plays
as theatrical events, this work analyzes Shakespeare's dramatic and
thematic exploitation of these conflicting perceptions of music.
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