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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415806704
ISBN-139780415806701
eBay Product ID (ePID)111054816
Product Key Features
Number of Pages216 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMusic and Gender in English Renaissance Drama
Publication Year2012
SubjectRenaissance, Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, General, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorKatrine K. Wong
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Music, Performing Arts
SeriesRoutledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2012-020061
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal822/.09353
Table Of Content1. Introduction 2. "A damnd divel, or an Angel?": Music and Women 3. "Sing us a bawdy song, and make's merry": Music and Men 4. "My heart is stolne out of my eare": Music, Love, and Sex 5. Conclusion
SynopsisThis 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.
LC Classification NumberPR658.S42W77 2012
