for string orchestra and harp or piano with 2 optional flutes This is the full score for this arrangement, which was based on the score for the opera.

for winds, guitar, strings, and harp or piano This is arrangement, which is adapted from the opera by Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love, may be played by the full orchestration or strings and piano/harp/guitar. 2.1.2.1-2.0.0.0-pf/hp-gtr-str

This work is unique in the field: the reader is introduced to music from several centuries and to five of the most popular plays in great detail (Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream). Other plays are discussed (1 & 2 Henry IV, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice). It contains no musical notation and assumes no previous knowledge of music or of Shakespeare. It can be used in the classroom by a professor of English or of music. Suggested CD and video recordings are listed and keyed by page number to examples in the book.