Michelle Meinhart
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042706
- eISBN:
- 9780252051562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042706.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Longleat, a stately home in Wiltshire, England, served as a hospital for British and allied troops in World War I. As reported in the Longleat Lyre, music provided entertainment and relief to ...
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Longleat, a stately home in Wiltshire, England, served as a hospital for British and allied troops in World War I. As reported in the Longleat Lyre, music provided entertainment and relief to recovering soldiers and built a community that transcended boundaries of class and culture. Longleat housed no officers, and soldiers from lower ranks intermingled in musical performances with the aristocrats of the Thynne family and with Reverend Cocks, the chaplain, and his wife. Repertoire was transnational, with American music and styles a staple ingredient, but also with the semi-classical music favored by upper social classes. Longleat built community through music within its environs, throughout the region, and in parallel with music produced and experienced by troops in the trenches.Less
Longleat, a stately home in Wiltshire, England, served as a hospital for British and allied troops in World War I. As reported in the Longleat Lyre, music provided entertainment and relief to recovering soldiers and built a community that transcended boundaries of class and culture. Longleat housed no officers, and soldiers from lower ranks intermingled in musical performances with the aristocrats of the Thynne family and with Reverend Cocks, the chaplain, and his wife. Repertoire was transnational, with American music and styles a staple ingredient, but also with the semi-classical music favored by upper social classes. Longleat built community through music within its environs, throughout the region, and in parallel with music produced and experienced by troops in the trenches.
Margreta de Grazia
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226785196
- eISBN:
- 9780226785363
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226785363.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
In the only picture we have of a Shakespearean play from Shakespeare’s lifetime, periodization is moot. In the Longleat drawing (ca. 1598) of Titus Andronicus, only Titus’s costume belongs to the ...
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In the only picture we have of a Shakespearean play from Shakespeare’s lifetime, periodization is moot. In the Longleat drawing (ca. 1598) of Titus Andronicus, only Titus’s costume belongs to the play’s ancient setting; the attire and weaponry of the other characters are variously modern. Not until around 1800 was a Shakespearean play performed “in period”: John Philip Kemble famously staged Coriolanus with costumes, props, and scenery in sync with the play’s early Roman setting, notionally based on historical and archaeological research. While period drama marked a radical break with past productions, indifferent to historical accuracy and coherence, it was perfectly in keeping with other emergent forms of representation: the historical novel and historical painting, as well as the Kantian world picture that for Heidegger is itself the defining and exclusive feature of the modern epoch.Less
In the only picture we have of a Shakespearean play from Shakespeare’s lifetime, periodization is moot. In the Longleat drawing (ca. 1598) of Titus Andronicus, only Titus’s costume belongs to the play’s ancient setting; the attire and weaponry of the other characters are variously modern. Not until around 1800 was a Shakespearean play performed “in period”: John Philip Kemble famously staged Coriolanus with costumes, props, and scenery in sync with the play’s early Roman setting, notionally based on historical and archaeological research. While period drama marked a radical break with past productions, indifferent to historical accuracy and coherence, it was perfectly in keeping with other emergent forms of representation: the historical novel and historical painting, as well as the Kantian world picture that for Heidegger is itself the defining and exclusive feature of the modern epoch.
