This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a lit

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributo

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 J

Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, an