Singing Shakespeare.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)

Thanks to Jonathan Moscone for his article "What Do I Know About Shakespeare?" (Sept. '05). As an actor who has performed in half a dozen Shakespeare plays, I'm about to embark on directing my first one. Moscone's advice was affirming and the book recommendations right-on. I too have a book recommendation for anyone interested in delving even deeper into Shakespeare.

In Shakespeare's Songbook (Norton, 2004), Ross W. Duffin has collected 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in ...

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