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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

  • Editor: Cooke, Mervyn
  • Editor: Wilson, Christopher

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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 Drabek
  • 28. Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century Italian Operatic Stage
  • William Germano
  • 29. Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siecle London
  • Adrian Streete
  • 30. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the Operatic Stage
  • Klara Skrobankova
  • 31. Shakespeare and Opera in the Czech Lands
  • Jiri Kopecky
  • 32. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare: Verdi's Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres
  • Sarka Havlickova Kysova
  • 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