Book contents
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: New Shakespeare for a New Era
- Chapter 1 From Boards to Books: The Circulation of Shakespearean Songs in Manuscript and Print during the Interregnum
- Chapter 2 Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- Chapter 3 More than a Song and Dance? Identifying Matthew Locke’s Incidental Music for Macbeth
- Chapter 4 Cross-Dressing in Restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and The Tempest
- Chapter 5 Performing Restoration Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 6 An Actor’s Perspective on Restoration Shakespeare
- Chapter 7 Staging Restoration Shakespeare with Restoration Music
- Chapter 8 Davenant’s Lady Macduff and the Subversion of Normative Femininity in Twenty-First-Century Performance
- Chapter 9 Facts as Ideas: The Theatricalisation of Scholarship
- Chapter 10 Syncopated Time: Staging the Restoration Tempest
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Staging Restoration Shakespeare with Restoration Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2023
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: New Shakespeare for a New Era
- Chapter 1 From Boards to Books: The Circulation of Shakespearean Songs in Manuscript and Print during the Interregnum
- Chapter 2 Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- Chapter 3 More than a Song and Dance? Identifying Matthew Locke’s Incidental Music for Macbeth
- Chapter 4 Cross-Dressing in Restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and The Tempest
- Chapter 5 Performing Restoration Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 6 An Actor’s Perspective on Restoration Shakespeare
- Chapter 7 Staging Restoration Shakespeare with Restoration Music
- Chapter 8 Davenant’s Lady Macduff and the Subversion of Normative Femininity in Twenty-First-Century Performance
- Chapter 9 Facts as Ideas: The Theatricalisation of Scholarship
- Chapter 10 Syncopated Time: Staging the Restoration Tempest
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Robert Eisenstein, director of the Folger Consort, was musical director for the 2018 production of Davenant’s Macbeth at the Folger Theatre, a collaboration between the Folger Shakespeare Library and the research project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’. In this interview with Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Eisenstein explains the role of music in the Restoration theatre and the particular musical demands of Restoration Shakespeare. Based on his experience at the Folger, he also reflects on the challenges and opportunities for musicians in performing Restoration Shakespeare today with Restoration-era music (some of which had been composed for the original productions) and offers suggestions for both musical and stage directors in bringing this unique historical repertoire to life on the contemporary stage.
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- Performing Restoration Shakespeare , pp. 132 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023