قراءة كتاب Shakespeare and Music
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THE LATE CHRISTOPHER WILSON
SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC
BY
CHRISTOPHER WILSON
LONDON
"THE STAGE" OFFICE
16 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 2
1922
CONTENTS
CHRISTOPHER WILSON: A MEMOIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii INTRODUCTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 AS YOU LIKE IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CORIOLANUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 CYMBELINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 HAMLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 KING HENRY IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 HENRY VIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 JULIUS CAESAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 KING LEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 MACBETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 MEASURE FOR MEASURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 OTHELLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 KING RICHARD III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 ROMEO AND JULIET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 THE TEMPEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 TIMON OF ATHENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 TWELFTH NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 THE WINTER'S TALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 SHAKESPEARE'S SONGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
CHRISTOPHER WILSON
A MEMOIR
(Reprinted, by kind permission of the Editor, from
The Musical Times of April 1, 1919)
When Christopher Wilson published his master-song, "Come away, Death," in 1901, The Times said of it that it was "all that such a song should be—fantastic, yet deeply pathetic, and as musicianly as a work by a Mendelssohn scholar ought to be." The words italicised remain true of all that this gifted composer left us; and the pity of it is that for various reasons, some of which will appear in the present notice, so little of his work has been printed.
"Chris" Wilson, as he was known to hosts of friends in Bohemian circles, was born at Melbourne, in Derbyshire, on October 7, 1874. He came of musical stock on both sides. Many stories, based on undoubted fact, are current as to the boy's proficiency on the