The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

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Christopher R. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Hull. He was the UK Research Associate for the Shakespeare Music Catalogue and wrote the Shakespeare entries for Grove Opera and Grove Music. His dictionary (with Michela Calore) Music in Shakespeare first published in 2005 has been reissued in its third impression as one of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries (2014). His book Shakespeare's Musical Imagery (2011) investigates categories and thematics in musical metaphor and contextual reference throughout the plays and poems. His database of music in Shakespeare is available at www.shakespearemusic.bham.ac.uk under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute. Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. For six years he was Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge. His books include Britten and the Far East (1998) four co-edited volumes of Britten's correspondence (200412) handbooks on the same composer's Billy Budd and War Requiem (1993 and 1996) and two illustrated histories of jazz (1998 and 2013). He has edited and co-edited four titles in the Cambridge Companions series devoted to Britten twentieth-century opera jazz and film music. He is the author of A History of Film Music (2008) and editor of The Hollywood Film Music Reader (2010) and his most recent monograph is Pat Metheny : The ECM Years 1975-1984 (2017). He is also Series Editor for the online publishing platform Cambridge Elements in Music Since 1945.