Shakespeare and Music

Joseph M. Ortiz, Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, El Paso, explains how music was experienced and understood in Shakespeare’s time, with reference to education, the emerging music publishing industry, conflicting religious views, audiences’ expectations, and music as an instrument of political power. www.oup.com/shakespeare
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Joseph M. Ortiz is an Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, El Paso, specialising in the relationship between literature and music, English Renaissance poetry and drama, classical literature, and Italian Renaissance poetry. His first degree was in English and Mathematics at Yale University, followed by a PhD in English from Princeton University and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.
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