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- Title
Documents of Performance: Music and the Representation of History in Charles Kean's Revival of Shakespeare's Henry V.
- Authors
Cockett, Stephen
- Abstract
This article examines the interrelationship between music and interpolated stage action in Charles Kean's revival of Shakespeare's Henry V at the Princess's Theatre, London in 1859 through a digital realisation and audio recording of the score based on the published piano arrangement of ‘music partly ancient and partly composed’ by B. Isaacson and pictures by F. Lloyds, designer and scene painter. Focusing on tableaux vivants in the Chorus to Act 4 and the episode of Henry's return to London in Act 5, it examines the uses and contributions of the orchestral score to Kean's stated archaeological objective and his portrayal of Henry, as well as issues about how the actor performed with musical accompaniment, functions of the score in shaping the dynamics of stage action, and the part played by musical idiom, style and mood in mediating audience response.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); ENGLAND; KEAN, Charles; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; HENRY V (Play : Shakespeare); THEATER
- Publication
Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film, 2007, Vol 34, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1748-3727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/NCTF.34.1.2