Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and BorrowingsISBN: 978-0-7456-3297-1
Paperback
248 pages
July 2007, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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"Shakespreare and Music is about afterlives, in quotations,
borrowings, citations, adaptations, all of it after
Shakespeare’s own lifetime. It is also about reception and
interpretation, re-imagining, appropriation, in Verdi of course,
Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and then on contemporary films, Duke Ellington,
Billy Strayhorn. This is at once a learned book, an original
contribution to learning, and a story that lovers of Shakespeare
and music will enjoy and profit from. It is a real success:
gracefully written, elegant, intelligent, witty."
David Bevington, University of Chicago