2009
DOI: 10.1353/shb.0.0069
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"Strike up the drum": The Use of Music in the Boyd History Cycle

Abstract: This article discusses Michael Boyd's 2008 staging of Shakespeare's history cycle at the RSC, exploring the ways in which music was used and how it consistently connected, confirmed, and subverted the action on stage. Boyd's production - only the third UK staging of the eight-play cycle in the last fifty years - used music, both diegetic and exegetic, with an unprecedented degree of complexity and sophistication: as a narrative instrument to draw connections between the individual plays, an inflection of other… Show more

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