A Study of Songs in Early English Drama

早期现代戏剧中的歌曲有时可以被视为戏剧条件的“指纹”；音乐作为商品连接了虚拟世界和现实世界。音乐史，特别是各种各样的配偶的音乐史表明，莎士比亚的《皆大皆非》中的歌曲显示了傻瓜的角色和功能的变化，而且这出戏是在女王面前举行的。如果是这样的话，新历史主义认为这出戏具有“颠覆-遏制”模式的著名陈词滥调应该受到强烈挑战。

Songs in early modern plays sometimes can be regarded as a"fingerprint"of the theatrical conditions ; music connects the fictive and real world as commodity. History of music, especially that of variety of consort, suggests that the songs in Shakespeare's As You Like It shows the changing role and function of the Fool, and that the play was held in presence of the Queen. If such is the case, the famous cliche by New Historicism arguing this play with"subversion-containment"model should strongly be challenged.