Shakespeare and Music

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Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and composers have also created musical adaptations based on Shakespeare's plays. Composer Christopher Wilson's Shakespeare and Music (1922) documents the musical history of each play across various genres, including opera and incidental music. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

  1. Christopher Wilson: A Memoir
  2. Introductory
  3. Antony and Cleopatra
  4. As You Like It
  5. The Comedy of Errors
  6. Coriolanus
  7. Cymbeline
  8. Hamlet
  9. King Henry IV
  10. Henry VIII
  11. Julius Caesar
  12. King Lear
  13. Macbeth
  14. Measure For Measure
  15. The Merchant of Venice
  16. The Merry Wives of Windsor
  17. A Midsummer Night's Dream
  18. Much Ado About Nothing
  19. Othello
  20. King Richard III
  21. Romeo and Juliet
  22. The Taming of the Shrew
  23. The Tempest
  24. Timon of Athens
  25. Twelfth Night
  26. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  27. The Winter's Tale
  28. Shakespeare's Songs
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