• Astha

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• Dr. Sujata

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Due to a great charm, music attracts the entire humanity. So, in this manner; the aim
of this paper is to analyze the ‘Role of songs and music’ in the Shakespearean comedies. Songs
and music seems as a life line to every Shakespearean play and especially for comedies. No one
can deny with the existence and the role of the songs in the comedies of Shakespeare because
they plays an important role during the portrayal of the plot of the particular scene or the story.
In the Shakespearean comedies the availability of music, song and dance is analyzed individually
where the main concern of the analysis can be seen in terms to discover the dramatic effects of
the music during the whole play with the possible visual effects within the story. So, each
occurrence of the music is related to its immediate context as well as to the broader themes of
the play. In the Shakespearean comedies, during a play, the term 'music' is frequently used to
include the three types of music which can be seen as instrumental music, vocal songs and the
music which accompanies the dances. Some general patterns can be seen as emerged in the use
of music, and that’s why it is assumed that Shakespeare uses the music to forward the dramatic
action of his comedies with a great conscious, no extra ordinary diversion is seen anywhere in
the context of the running plot.

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