Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

ISBN-13: 9780367881054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Catherine A. Henze

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In Shakespeare’s Songs Restored, Catherine Henze restores important, previously inaccessible material to nine of Shakespeare’s most famous plays: the original music that accompanied seventeen songs. After locating the music, she collaborates with Renaissance music specialist Lawrence Lipnik to provide reconstructed songs based on Shakespeare’s wor

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Contents

List of Musical Examples

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Robert Armin: Apprentice, Extemporizing Comedian,

Author, Singing Actor, and Possibly Shakespeare's Collaborator

2 Early Modern Music Contexts

3 Armin’s Singing Fools: Feste, Lear’s Fool, and Autolycus

4 Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It: Armin's Beginning with Shakespeare's Company

5 Armin's Possible Apprentices: Ophelia and Desdemona

6 Robert Johnson's Songs in Cymbeline and The Tempest: Armin's Final Performances with the King's Men?

Conclusion

Appendix 1 "Songs in the Plays"

Appendix 2 Alternate Settings for "Hold Thy Peace" and "Willow, Willow"

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Catherine A. Henze is a Professor Emerita of Humanistic Studies-English, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA.