​Italy may have a new prime minister designate in economist Carlo Cottarelli​, but the country is heading deeper into political crisis. Populist parties, outraged at the Italian president’s veto of their choice of eurosceptic finance minister, are unlikely to give Cottarelli their support. New elections loom. James Newell explains why the implications of the crisis stretch well beyond Italy.

Films today tend to rely on sweeping, dramatic, emotive scores to make their impact. Early modern theatre’s use of music was rather different – but perhaps not so much as you might think. Simon Smith explains how Shakespeare used sound to engage his audiences and why The Winter’s Tale could be read as a mythical story of music’s power.

Proposed cuts to deaf education have been fuelling mistrust between the deaf community and the “hearing” authorities that wield the axe. But it’s no wonder, writes Esme Cleall. She examines the troubled history of sign language and deaf education and why the latest cutbacks risk reopening old wounds.

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