Musical Shakespeare

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In five pages this paper analyzes if the musicals Otello and Macbeth by Verdi, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music, the Hamlet incidental music and fantasy overture by Tchaikovsky, and Cole Porter's musical version of The Taming of the Shrew entitled Kiss Me, Kate were able to sufficiently capture the mood of the Shakespeare plays from which they were derived. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.