Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Katrine K. Wong |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136169695 |
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.
Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage
Title | Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Viviana Comensoli |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN | 9780252067303 |
Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.
Music in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Music in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | John Henderson Long |
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Release | 1968 |
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The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama
Title | The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Marliss C. Desens |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780874134766 |
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.
Music in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Music in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Long |
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Release | 1981 |
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Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance
Title | Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Phyllis Austern |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9782881245589 |
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Music in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Music in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Long |
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Pages | 184 |
Release | 1979 |
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