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 Drábek
28. Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century Italian Operatic
Stage
William Germano
29. Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siècle London
Adrian Streete
30. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet,
and Coriolanus on the Operatic Stage
Klára Skrobánková
31. Shakespeare and Opera in the Czech Lands
Jirí Kopecký
32. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare: Verdi's Macbeth
and Otello in Czech Theatres
Sárka Havlícková Kysová
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
Christopher R. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Music at the
University of Hull. He was the UK Research Associate for the
Shakespeare Music Catalogue and wrote the Shakespeare entries for
Grove Opera and Grove Music. His dictionary (with Michela Calore)
Music in Shakespeare, first published in 2005, has been reissued in
its third impression as one of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
(2014). His book
Shakespeare's Musical Imagery (2011) investigates categories and
thematics in musical metaphor and contextual reference throughout
the plays and poems. His database of music in Shakespeare is
available at www.shakespearemusic.bham.ac.uk under the auspices of
the
Shakespeare Institute.
Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham.
For six years, he was Research Fellow and Director of Studies in
Music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His books include Britten
and the Far East (1998), four co-edited volumes of Britten's
correspondence (2004DS12), handbooks on the same composer's Billy
Budd and War Requiem (1993 and 1996), and two illustrated histories
of jazz (1998 and 2013). He has edited and co-edited four
titles in the Cambridge Companions series, devoted to Britten,
twentieth-century opera, jazz, and film music. He is the author of
A History of Film Music (2008) and editor of The Hollywood Film
Music Reader (2010), and his most recent monograph is
Pat Metheny : The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (2017). He is also Series
Editor for the online publishing platform Cambridge Elements in
Music Since 1945.
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