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256 - Musical Comedy

from Part XXVI - Shakespeare and the Performing Arts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Tetsuo Kishi
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Keywords

Astaire, FredThe Band WagonBerkeley, BusbyBerlin, IrvingBolt, RanjitBranagh, KennethDoran, GregoryEnglishby, PaulGershwin, GeorgeGershwin, IraHart, LorenzJonson, BenKern, JeromeLove’s Labour’s LostThe Merry Wives of WindsorMerry Wives – The MusicalOedipus RexPorter, ColeRobinson, BillRodgers, RichardRogers, GingerRoyal Shakespeare CompanyThacker, DavidThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaWoolfenden, Guy
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1827 - 1831
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Abbott, George, Hart, Lorenz, and Rodgers, Richard. The Boys from Syracuse. Unpublished typescript. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Google Scholar
Carlton, Bob. Return to the Forbidden Planet. New York: Samuel French, 1998.Google Scholar
Comden, Betty, and Green, Adolph. The Band Wagon. London: Lorrimer, 1986.Google Scholar
Doran, Gregory, Englishby, Paul, and Bolt, Ranjit. Merry Wives – The Musical. London: Oberon Books, 2006.Google Scholar
Driver, Donald, and Valenti, Michael. Oh, Brother! New York: Samuel French, 1982.Google Scholar
Fink, Bert. Liner notes to Shakespeare on Broadway. CD.Google Scholar
Hischak, Thomas. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.Google Scholar
Rich, Frank. “‘Oh, Brother!,’ A Musical.” New York Times, 11 November 1981.Google Scholar
Richards, Stanley, ed. Great Rock Musicals. New York: Stein and Day, 1979. Contains scripts of Two Gentlemen of Verona and Your Own Thing.Google Scholar

Further reading

Buhler, Stephen M. “Musical Shakespeare: Attending to Ophelia, Juliet, and Desdemona.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Ed. Shaughnessy, Robert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Dash, Irene G. Shakespeare and the American Musical. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010.Google Scholar
Richards, Stanley, ed. Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre. Radnor: Chilton, 1973. Contains scripts of Kiss Me, Kate and West Side Story.Google Scholar
Teague, Frances. Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Google Scholar

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