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Book Shakespeare s Use of Song

Download or read book Shakespeare s Use of Song written by Richmond Samuel Howe Noble and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1923 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s Songbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross W. Duffin
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780393058895
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Songbook written by Ross W. Duffin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Love and its Critics

Download or read book Love and its Critics written by Michael Bryson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.

Book Shakespeare And Music

Download or read book Shakespeare And Music written by David Lindley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and comprehensive study examines how music affects Shakespeare's plays and addresses the ways in which contemporary audiences responded to it. David Lindley sets the musical scene of Early Modern England, establishing the kinds of music heard in the streets, the alehouses, private residences and the theatres of the period and outlining the period's theoretical understanding of music. Focusing throughout on the plays as theatrical performances, this work analyzes the ways Shakespeare explores and exploits the conflicting perceptions of music at the time and its dramatic and thematic potential.

Book Shakespeare s Songs

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Songs written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gorboduc

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  • Author : Thomas Norton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Gorboduc written by Thomas Norton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare and Music

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  • Author : Edward W. Naylor
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-09-21
  • ISBN : 3734046866
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare and Music written by Edward W. Naylor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Shakespeare and Music by Edward W. Naylor

Book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music written by Christopher R. Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 1289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes 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 more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces 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: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Book Music in Shakespeare

Download or read book Music in Shakespeare written by Christopher R. Wilson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an A-Z of over 300 entries, Music in Shakespeare is the most comprehensive study of all the musical terms found in Shakespeare's complete works. It includes a definition of each musical term in its historical and theoretical context, and explores the diverse extent of musical imagery across the full range of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic work, as well as analysing the usage of instruments and sound effects on the Shakespearean stage. This is a comprehensive reference guide for scholars and students with interests in the thematic and allegorical relevance of music in Shakespeare, and the history of performance. Identifying all musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon, it will also be of use to the growing number of directors and actors concerned with recovering the staging conditions of the early modern theatre.

Book Pop Sonnets  Shakespearean Spins on Your Favourite Songs

Download or read book Pop Sonnets Shakespearean Spins on Your Favourite Songs written by Erik Didriksen and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of the very best collections of pop songs written in the style of William Shakespeare that I’ve read so far this year!’ ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic ‘Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can’t get enough’ TIME ‘Amazing’ Buzzfeed

Book Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Download or read book Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Titus Andronicus   Timon of Athens

Download or read book Titus Andronicus Timon of Athens written by William Shakespeare and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These words are razors to my wounded heart.” —Titus Andronicus “We have seen better days.” —Timon of Athens Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of the two great tragedies: Titus Adronicus, a graphic story of revenge, and Timon of Athens, a cautionary tale about false friends and unearned loyalty. THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: • original Introductions to Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens • incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work • commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers • photographs of key RSC productions • an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

Book Shakespeare s Musical Imagery

Download or read book Shakespeare s Musical Imagery written by Christopher R. Wilson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the meaning of Shakespeare's musical imagery in his plays and poems.

Book On the Character of Lady Macbeth

Download or read book On the Character of Lady Macbeth written by Emil PFUNDHELLER and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare and the American Musical

Download or read book Shakespeare and the American Musical written by Irene G. Dash and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bard on Broadway

Book Shakespeare  Music and Performance

Download or read book Shakespeare Music and Performance written by Bill Barclay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Book Robert Armin and Shakespeare s Performed Songs

Download or read book Robert Armin and Shakespeare s Performed Songs written by Catherine A. Henze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.