Excerpt of Ross Duffin’s chapter on music in Shakespeare’s plays published by Oxford University Press

 

Ross DuffinThe Oxford University Press published an excerpt from Ross Duffin’s chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare.

Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, wrote a chapter titled “Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare.”

He explained the history of instruments from William Shakespeare’s era and how music would have been used during his productions.

Read the excerpt.