Music in Shakespearean TragedyFirst published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure. |
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Contents
TRADITION OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 8 |
Refrain of Willow Song page | 18 |
THE WILLOW SONG | 23 |
Willow Song | 29 |
Willow Song | 48 |
OPHELIAS SONGS | 53 |
a As ye came from the holy land | 61 |
ADULT SONGS FROM HAMLET TO OTHELLO | 126 |
Love love nothing but love still more | 137 |
CHAPTER VI | 146 |
I loathe that I did love | 152 |
BLANK VERSE PROSE AND SONGS IN KING | 158 |
Then they for sudden joy did weep | 174 |
Come oer the burn Bessy | 181 |
Come oer the burn Bessy | 188 |
I loathe 154 | 62 |
a Merry Milkmaids | 68 |
I loathe 155 | 71 |
MAGIC SONGS | 79 |
CHAPTER IV | 80 |
Take o take those lips away unfigured bass | 94 |
ADULT SONGS AND ROBERT ARMIN | 98 |
CHAPTER V | 103 |
Passing Measure and Quadran Pavan | 251 |
RETROSPECT OF SCHOLARSHIP ON SHAKE | 258 |
I loathe 153 | 267 |
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