- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Note
- Biography
- The Shakespeare legend
- Shakespeare's works
- Literary features and terms
- Elizabethan and Jacobean literary context
- Theatrical context to 1660
- Historical, social, and cultural context
- Elizabethan and Jacobean printing, publishing, and manuscripts
- The editing of Shakespeare since 1700
- Editions and editors in English
- Theatrical history of the plays
- Critical history of the works
- Periodicals
- Societies and clubs
- Shakespeare's literary influence
- Shakespeare around the globe
- List of plays in alphabetical order
- The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth
- The royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
- Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology, 1564–1999
- Further reading
Morley, Thomas
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
- Author(s):
- Jeremy BarlowJeremy Barlow
Morley, Thomas (c. 1557–1602),
composer. He studied with William Byrd and became a proponent, publisher, and imitator of the new Italian madrigal style (which Byrd did not care for). His treatise A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (1597) is an important historical source on many aspects of music-making in Shakespeare's time.
Much speculation, based on little evidence, has taken place over the extent of Morley's collaboration and possible friendship with Shakespeare. The two have been linked through the composer's setting of ‘It was a lover and his lass’, and also, incorrectly, through the song ‘O mistress mine’, which Morley did not compose, but arranged instrumentally in his First Book of Consort Lessons (1599) for mixed consort (see broken music).
Jeremy Barlow
- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Note
- Biography
- The Shakespeare legend
- Shakespeare's works
- Literary features and terms
- Elizabethan and Jacobean literary context
- Theatrical context to 1660
- Historical, social, and cultural context
- Elizabethan and Jacobean printing, publishing, and manuscripts
- The editing of Shakespeare since 1700
- Editions and editors in English
- Theatrical history of the plays
- Critical history of the works
- Periodicals
- Societies and clubs
- Shakespeare's literary influence
- Shakespeare around the globe
- List of plays in alphabetical order
- The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth
- The royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
- Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology, 1564–1999
- Further reading
