19 novembre 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Pierre Iselin, « An Introduction to the Audio CD. “Shakespeare in Music” », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.8733
Historically, the paradox of music on Shakespeare’s stage lies in that it both inheres in the tradition of English theatre, and constitutes an act of utter transgression in those years of hot debate over abuses, when theatre, dance and music, not to speak of stage music, were the targets of puritan attack. In this polemical context, even the most ardent encomiasts of music would not defend music in the theatre: For I dare not speake of dauncing or theatrall spectacles, least I pull whole swar...