Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

In Shakespeare’s Songs Restored, Catherine Henze restores important, previously inaccessible material to nine of Shakespeare’s most famous plays: the original music that accompanied seventeen songs. After locating the music, she collaborates with Renaissance music specialist Lawrence Lipnik to provide reconstructed songs based on Shakespeare’s words. The author then analyzes both words and music, and applies the resulting new information to interpretations of characters and scenes, frequently challenging commonly held literary assessments.