Musing on the music in Shakespeare's ears (and ours)
Early on in “Something Rotten!,” the irreverent musical farce that imagines the birth of the Broadway musical as it might have happened during the Elizabethan era, a character suffering from Shakespeare envy loudly rants against The Bard’s use of iambic pentameter, the “rhythmic feet” that set the beat for his poetry. Of course the best […]