Synopsis
Lang:- eng, Pages 492 . Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back[1911]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. , Original Title:- Six lectures on the recorder and other flutes in relation to literature 1911 [Hardcover], Author: Welch, Christopher, ,Shakespeare, William, ,Milton, John,
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Shakespeare and Milton. Whilst commenting on the scene in which Hamlet takes the recorder in his hands and invites his fellow-student to play on it, a subject to which I have devoted a separate Lecture, I have pointed out that Shakespeare intended a band of recorderplayers, consisting of at least four performers, to come upon the stage. When Hamlet was first played, owing, it has been supposed, to the poor equipment of the theatre in Shakespeare stime, only one Player made his appearance. Even now, the number is usually restricted to two. In the present day, when neither trouble nor expense are spared in mounting the plays of the greatest of our dramatists, it would be a graceful compliment to the art of music, an art to which the drama is deeply indebted, if Shakespeare sdesign were carried out. A lso, when discussing the scene, I have drawn attention to an innovation which, if it has not already been abandoned, it is to be hoped will soon become a thing of the past. I allude to the treatment sometimes meted out by Hamlet to the recorder he has asked to see and the Players he has summoned to his presence. An actor who, having borrowed the flute with which to administer the well-known reproof, takes upon himself to order the Players off the stage, and, when they are gone, breaks in pieces the instrument lent to him, and throws the fragments scornfully away, cannot be surprised if neither musicians in general, nor flute-players in particular, should feel flattered. When dealing with Shakespeare, I am traversing a field a great part of which has been already more than once trodden, but on turning to Milton, I am on virgin ground. Here a disappointment awaits us.
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