Music And Gender In English Renaissance Drama

Author : Katrine K. Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136169694

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Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama by Katrine K. Wong Pdf

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and construction of gender during this period. Wong discusses dramaturgical meanings of music and its association with gender, love, and erotomania in Renaissance plays. The negotiation between the dichotomous qualities of the heavenly and the demonic finds extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern English plays. However, while ideological dualities identified in music in traditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal, various musical representations of characters and situations in early modern drama would prove otherwise. Wong, building upon the conventional model of binarism, explores how playwrights created their musical characters and scenarios according to the received cultural use and perception of music, and, at the same time, experimented with the multivalent meanings and significance embodied in theatrical music.

Author : Viviana Comensoli,Anne Russell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0252067304

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Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage by Viviana Comensoli,Anne Russell Pdf

Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.

Author : J. H. Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:660108714

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Music in English Renaissance Drama by J. H. Long Pdf

Author : John H. Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1327911043

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Music in English Renaissance Drama by John H. Long Pdf

Author : Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317130482

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Gender and Song in Early Modern England by Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson Pdf

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

Author : Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190945145

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music by Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke Pdf

"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Author : Katherine R. Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780192581945

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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson Pdf

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.

Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0810115212

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Explorations in Renaissance Drama by Mary Beth Rose Pdf

Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. The essays in Volume XXVI, "Explorations in Renaissance Drama," explore a range of theoretical issues, as well as issues in gender studies. Topics include the economic determination of Renaissance drama, same-sex erotic friendship, the construction of homoerotic desire in early modern England, two essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and another on staging the East.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118823989

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A New Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper Pdf

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137049575

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The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama by N. Liebler Pdf

This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.

Author : Thomasin LaMay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351916271

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Musical Voices of Early Modern Women by Thomasin LaMay Pdf

Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents, at home, and as rulers. Musical Voices of Early Modern Women adds to the mix of early modern studies a volume that correlates women's musical endeavors to their lives, addressing early modern women's musical activities across a broad spectrum of cultural events and settings. The volume takes as its premise the notion that while women may have been squeezed to participate in music through narrower doors than their male peers, they nevertheless did so with enthusiasm, diligence, and success. They were there in many ways, but as women's lives were fundamentally different and more private than men's were, their strategies, tools, and appearances were sometimes also different and thus often unstudied in an historical discipline that primarily evaluated men's productivity. Given that, many of these stories will not necessarily embrace a standard musical repertoire, even as they seek to expand canonical borders. The contributors to this collection explore the possibility of a larger musical culture which included women as well as men, by examining early modern women in "many-headed ways" through the lens of musical production. They look at how women composed, assuming that compositional gender strategies may have been used differently when applied through her vision; how women were composed, or represented and interpreted through music in a larger cultural context, and how her presence in that dialog situated her in social space. Contributors also trace how women found music as a means for communicating, for establishing intellectual power, for generating musical tastes, and for enhancing the quality of their lives. Some women performed publicly, and thus some articles examine how this impacted on their lives and families. Other contributors inquire about the economics of music and women, and how in different situations some women may have been financially empowered or even in control of their own money-making. This collection offers a glimpse at women from home, stage, work, and convent, from many classes and from culturally diverse countries - including France, Spain, Italy, England, Austria, Russia, and Mexico - and imagines a musical history centered in the realities of those lives.

Author : John Henderson Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59459067

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Music in English Renaissance Drama by John Henderson Long Pdf

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521568420

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Impersonations by Stephen Orgel Pdf

A provocative exploration of gender in the Renaissance, from theatrical cross-dressing to cultural subversion.

Author : Marliss C. Desens
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874134765

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The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama by Marliss C. Desens Pdf

None of these assumptions has been tested against the evidence of the surviving plays from the period - an oversight that the present study seeks to remedy.

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1032831782

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Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance by Linda Phyllis Austern Pdf

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study to examine the Elizabethan and Jacobean children's drama, not only from a musicological perspective, but also drawing on the histories of literature, culture, and the theater. It gives the children's companies new historical significance, showing that they were an integral and ultimately influential part of the London theatrical world. These companies originated important features of later drama, such as music before and between acts, and the exploitation of different timbres for specific effects. Those interested in music history, English literature, theater history, and cultural history will find this a comprehensive and fascinating study. Of special note are the appendices, which offer a unique and important reference source by providing the only definitive list of the plays and songs used by the children.