Actually, I didn't mean to imply that Shakespeare was a great (or even good) pedagogue - only that he was a student of Lamperti. Actually, based on what I've read of PLAIN WORDS ON SINGING, it would appear that Shakespeare taught something very much like "speech level singing", i.e., with singing sounding "as natural as the most expressive talking". Given how very, very few people speak with anything approaching good vocal technique, I would be highly wary of ANY singing technique that takes speech as a role model, except perhaps in the un(self)consciousness of the inhalation process.
KM === On Neil Shicoff - http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html On yours truly - http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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