If music be the food of love…

This week I've been writing a piece for Shakespeare Magazine on the theme of Shakespeare and classical music. It's such a huge and fascinating subject – he inspired composers as varied as Purcell and Goehr, Schumann and Britten – and it was a lot of fun to relisten to some fantastic music.

It's also exciting to watch a new magazine coming to life: Shakespeare Magazine was recently launched, on what would have been, as far as any of these dates are ever certain, the Bard's 450th birthday. It's free and published online, as a digital magazine that's put together just as if it had been printed-on-paper. Hard to believe, but it seems there aren't any other magazines out there dedicated to William Shakespeare. So, go on, have a look at the first issue:

http://issuu.com/shakespearemagazine/docs/shakespeare_magazine_01