Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln''s Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company''s new productions and their respective musical ass...