{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-music-afterlives-and-borrowings-hardback-9780745632964","title":"Shakespeare and Music; Afterlives and Borrowings (Hardback) 9780745632964","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare and Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfterlives and Borrowings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulie Sanders (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745632964, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 2 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShakespreare and Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bevington, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife discussing opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals and film soundtracks, as well as folk music and hip-hop traditions.  \u003cp\u003eTaking as its starting point ideas of creativity and improvisation stemming from early modern baroque practices and the more recent example of twentieth-century jazz adaptation, this volume explores the many ways in which Shakespeares plays and poems have been re-worked by musical composers. It also places these cultural productions in their own historical moment and context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdaptation studies is a fast emerging field of scholarship and as a contribution to this field, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edevelops theories and practices from adaptation studies to think about musical responses to Shakespeare across the centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ebrings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eexplores music in its widest context, looking at classical symphonies including the work of Berlioz and Elgar and operas by Verdi and Britten as well as Broadway musicals, film scores by Shostakovich, Walton, and contemporary performers, and the jazz adaptations of Duke Ellington and others.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a timely study that will appeal to a wide readership from lovers of Shakespeare and classical music through to students of film and historians of the theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrelude 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘All That Jazz’: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Classical Shakespeares 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Shall we dance?’: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist’ 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Symphonic Film Scores 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘You know the movie song’:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Musical Terms 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscography 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilmography 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 221\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406615212312,"sku":"9780745632964","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745632964.jpg?v=1784140823","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeare-and-music-afterlives-and-borrowings-hardback-9780745632964","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}