Hello, Jack. The production I saw tried very much to be in period, except for one thing. Sometimes, for comic effect, the countess Olivia and her servant Maria would glide across the floor so smoothly, I think they were hiding shoes with wheels on them under their long gowns. It always got a laugh.

I've seen young boys of today gliding along on shoes with wheels, but I didn't think the shoes could take the weight of an adult. However, I can't picture any other way the actors could have done it.

Back to Shakespeare: I have read that the only tune we know from his plays is "It was a lover and his lass." The other songs in the play had original music composed by a modern composer, whose name I forget. (We did the miss the first few minutes, where the gallery is playing something. It could have been Greensleeves, but I hope not. Too obvious.)

Back to Courante 83. I play it on dulcimer now, and my husband plays it on the harp, minus a few accidentals. It still sounds good.