title: Shakespeare-Love to Madness-Contemporary Renderin
author: William Shakespeare
description: Rich is an exciting new composer/arranger. He is able to combine the best of jazz with the finest tradition of classicism. -- <i>Maestro James Brooks Bruzzese, Artistic Director and Conductor, Symphony of the Americas</i>
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  LEONARD
  
  Film • Instrumental Music
  
  SHAKESPEARE,
  
  In _Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic
  Adaptations_ , Kendra Preston Leonard examines the use of music in
  Shakespeare’s three political tragedies— _Hamlet_ , _Macbeth_ , and _King
  Lear_. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, MADNESS,
  
  which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to
  convey details that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and
  expectation, political unrest, and ultimately, truth.
  
  AND MUSIC
  
  Music has long been associated with madness and was often used as an audible
  symptom of victims’ disassociation from their surroundings and societal rules,
  as well as a loss of SHAKESPEARE, MAD
  
  self-control. Whether discussing contemporary source materials, such as songs,
  verses, or rhymes specified by Shakespeare in his plays, or music composed
  specifically for a film, Leonard illustrates