Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry SP - 247-64 ID - bbbc1744 T1 - "Song in Shakespeare: Rhetoric, Identity, Agency" AU - Alexander, Gavin PY - 2013 DA - 2013 LA - English AB - Analyzes "It was a lover and his lass" and "Under the greenwood tree" in As You Like It and The Willow Song in Othello in contrast to the music of Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night. Asserts that the "earlier plays both in the material appearance of their play texts and in the nature of their earliest performances represent a more uneasy integration of song into drama." ER -