Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings

Acknowledgements viii

Prelude 1

1 ‘All That Jazz’: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11

2 Classical Shakespeares 29

3 ‘Shall we dance?’: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59

4 ‘Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist’ 73

5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96

6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten:

Case Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112

7 Symphonic Film Scores 135

8 ‘You know the movie song’:

Contemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159

9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182

Coda 194

Glossary of Musical Terms 198

Bibliography 202

Discography 214

Filmography 219

Index 221