Some Other Note

A native of Canada, Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, where he specializes in historical performance practice. Among his books are Shakespeare's Songbook (W. W. Norton, 2004), and How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) (Norton, 2007). Duffin has been described as "virtually synonymous with music and Shakespeare," and his book was lauded as "a musicological tour de force, totally without pedantry, a book which will forever change Shakespeare productions."

Glossary
Foreword, by Tiffany Stern
Prologue - Editorial Note
Acknowledgments

Part 1. Background of the 15th and 16th Centuries
1. Mystery/Morality Plays
2. Court Enterludes
3. St Paul's Enterludes
4. Chapels Royal Enterludes
5. University and Inns of Court Enterludes
6. Continental Influences

Part 2. London Comedy to 1625
7. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
8. George Chapman (1559-1634)
9. John Marston (1576-1634)
10. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
11. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
12. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
13. Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
14. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
15. Other Playwrights
16. Anonymous Plays ca.1600
17. Jigs

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