[PDF] Music And Gender In English Renaissance Drama eBook

Author : Katrine K. Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136169709

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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 : Katrine K. Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136169695

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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
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780252067303

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

Author : John H. Long
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081318634X

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Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance. This collection of essays by a number of distinguished scholars offers a series of views of the music of this drama—ranging from the mystery cycles still performed in the late sixteenth century to the cavalier drama of the early seventeenth. The essays included here are mainly concerned with the minor dramatic forms—the mystery plays, the "entertainments," the masques, and the works of such playwrights as Marston and Cartwright—which reveal more extensively the blending of music and drama; and they illustrate a variety of approaches to the dramatic art. The collection as a whole demonstrates the need for an interdisciplinary consideration of this important area of study. Of especial value to musicologists is the bibliography of extant music used in dramatic works of the period.

Author : Marliss C. Desens
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874134766

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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 : Taylor & Francis
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9782881245589

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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113704957X

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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 : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780810115217

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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.