As an "Arts Consultant" I seek to show artists and society how all the different mediums of art are highly intertwined and reliant upon one another. The Shakespeare Bridge to Music Did Shakespeare use music in his plays? If so, how did he incorporate it in his plays? Did he use music as it is used in an opera today? After taking a class this past quarter at Northwestern University on this subject, my eyes were opened to how music contributes to the vitality of Shakespeare's plays. Throughout his plays, he uses aspects of rhyme and rhythm in the way his play's lines are structured and written. In addition, Shakespeare frequently verbally describes music being sung or heard by actors in order to allude to important events that are about to occur or instill a certain context of mood on a scene. To explore this concept in detail, I've chosen to examine Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. To help understand the discussions below, I will give a
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