Shakespeare and Music

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This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responsesto Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth centuryonwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores themany genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work haveenjoyed a musical afterlife discussing opera, ballet, and classicalsymphony alongside musicals and film soundtracks, as well as folkmusic and hip-hop traditions. Taking as its starting point ideas of creativity andimprovisation stemming from early modern baroque practices and themore recent example of twentieth-century jazz adaptation, thisvolume explores the many ways in which Shakespeares plays and poemshave been re-worked by musical composers. It also places thesecultural productions in their own historical moment andcontext. Adaptation studies is a fast emerging field of scholarship andas a contribution to this field, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlivesand Borrowings: * * develops theories and practices from adaptation studies tothink about musical responses to Shakespeare across thecenturies * * brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas andmethodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history,film studies, and musicology * * explores music in its widest context, looking at classicalsymphonies including the work of Berlioz and Elgar and operas byVerdi and Britten as well as Broadway musicals, film scores byShostakovich, Walton, and contemporary performers, and the jazzadaptations of Duke Ellington and others. This is a timely study that will appeal to a wide readershipfrom lovers of Shakespeare and classical music through to studentsof film and historians of the theatre.

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Julie Sanders

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Art & Applied Arts Dance & Theater Englische Literatur / Shakespeare Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst Literature Literaturwissenschaft Shakespeare Tanz u. Theater

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"Shakespreare and Music is about afterlives, in quotations,borrowings, citations, adaptations, all of it afterShakespeare's own lifetime. It is also about reception andinterpretation, re-imagining, appropriation, in Verdi of course,Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and then on contemporary films, Duke Ellington,Billy Strayhorn. This is at once a learned book, an originalcontribution to learning, and a story that lovers of Shakespeareand music will enjoy and profit from. It is a real success:gracefully written, elegant, intelligent, witty." David Bevington, University of Chicago
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