Music and the Representation of History in Charles Kean's Revival of Shakespeare's Henry V1

From: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Cockett, Stephen | Copyright information

Actor-managers in the nineteenth century took it for granted that orchestral accompaniment was as integral to performance of Shakespeare as to melodrama. Charles Kean was no exception. All the plays in his series of Shakespearian revivals at the Princess's Theatre, London in the 1850s incorporated a musical score, specially composed or extracted from established work, for an orchestra comprising strings, brass, woodwind and percussion, with singers and chorus where text or staging required, a...

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