What instruments was used in shakespeare plays?

Answer 1

Recorders are mentioned in Hamlet. A lute is mentioned in Taming of the Shrew. Oboes (called hautboys) were common instruments in the theatre as were trombones (sackbuts) and both appear in stage directions along with trumpets and drums. Viols are mentioned in Comedy of Errors. There is a reference in Love's Labour's Lost to a cittern (sort of a Bass Guitar). Organ-pipes are referred to in King John and The Tempest, and keyboard instruments of the clavichord or harpsichord type did exist.

All instruments were of course acoustic.

Answer 2

I can't say whether Shakespeare himself played an instrument, but these were the instruments of the time period:

-Trumpets

-Kettledrums

-Bells

-Recorders

-Lutes

-Viol (a type of stringed instrument with a fretted fingerboard and 6 strings)

-Bandore (ancient banjo)

-Cithern (early version of a guitar)

-Fifes

Answer 3

It is recorded that Shakespeare acted in the Ben Jonson plays Sejanus and Every Man in his Humour. It is not recorded what parts he played. He also acted in his own plays, but we don't know which.

Shakespeare began his career in the London theater as an actor. We can be reasonably certain of this because a critic of his first play, Robert Greene, wrote a highly unfavorable review in which he stated that it was presumptuous of a "mere actor" to write a play. Shakespeare's name appears in the cast lists of the Chamberlain's Men acting company ones.

Answer 4

They had many instruments similar to those we have nowadays, although never electrically amplified of course. They had sackbuts, which were primitive trombones, shawms, which were primitive clarinets, hautboys, which were oboes, just spelled differently and recorders, which we still have. They also had stringed instruments: viols, which are like violins, and came in various sizes, and lutes which are guitarlike instruments.

Answer 5

Shakespeare's plays refer to the use of recorders(Hamlet), trumpets (All's Well that Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry IV Part 1, Henry VI Parts 1-3, Henry VIII, King John, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Richard II, Richard III, Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida), oboes (Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry Vi Part 2, Henry VIII, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus), drums (All's Well that Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Henry V, Henry VI Parts 1-3, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard II, Richard III, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus), kettledrums (Hamlet), horns (Henry VI Parts 1 and 3, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream), fife (Timon of Athens), cornets (All's Well that Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry VIII, Merchant of Venice), lute (Taming of the Shrew, First Quarto Hamlet)

Answer 6

William Shakespeare is not known to have played an instrument.

Answer 7

Pianos didn't exist back then; the first piano was built around hundred years after his time.

Answer 8

It is possible. However, we do not have any real evidence one way or another.

Answer 9

Viols of various sizes, recorders of various sizes, oboes (hautboys), trombones (sackbuts), horns, and lutes were the most prominent.

Answer 10

Hamlet