Musicians in Ordinary: Shakespeare’s Saints and Sinners

‘More needs she the divine than the physician,’ says the doctor brought in to minister to Lady Macbeth. There was little difference for the Jacobeans between the care of the soul and the care of the sick in mind. With Shakespeare’s insights as a guide we present anthems, motets with strings by Gibbons and others and ‘divine and moral songs’ by Campion and Dowland.