Simon Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625

Beschreibung

This book re-examines early modern musical culture to suggest how music shapes meaning in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Autor

Simon Smith is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham. He has published widely on music in Shakespeare and early modern drama, and co-edited The Senses in Early Modern England, 1558-1660 (with Jackie Watson and Amy Kenny, 2015). His theatre-historical research informed the design of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe and he has provided historical music research - and occasionally musical direction - for many productions including Twelfth Night and Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe in 2012, The Tragedie of Cleopatra in 2013 at University College London and Wolf Hall on the BBC in 2015.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781316632369
• ISBN-10: 1316632369
• Artikelnr.: 53773425