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What does music mean in shakespeare?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

If you mean, what does Shakespeare mean when he uses the word "music" the answer is of course music. It meant the same to Shakespeare as it means to you. If you mean, what is its significance in Shakespeare's plays, that is a different and much more complex question. The plays featured many songs--drinking songs, love songs, hunting songs, sad songs. Sometimes songs are sung in the street to women in the house (Hark, Hark the Lark in Cymbeline and Who is Sylvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona). Professional singers like Feste in Twelfth Night and Amiens in As You Like it sing requests for people. In other words there is a lot of music going on, but as to what it means--well, different things on different occasions.

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12y ago

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