Unwritten poetry : song, performance, and media in early modern England / Scott A. Trudell.
This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which - and by whom - its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. The author argues that th...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Note on abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction. 1. Philip Sidney and musical poesis : Redefining poetry: mediation in Sidney's "Defence"
- "Theatre public": performance and "Communio" in Sidney's "Arcadia"
- Musical experimentation: William Byrd, "Astrophil and Stella," and Sidneian song
- Echoes of Sidney: the lute song movement and bibliographic performance.
- 2. Child singers' mediated bodies : Musical abuse: the case of Richard Edwards
- Naughty "Putti": John Marston's unsettling choristers
- Jonson's cracks: attenuated bodies in "Cynthia's Revels" and "Epicene".
- 3. Shakespeare's musical thresholds : "Twelfth Night" and musical paratext
- Performing objects in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- "More than matter": Ophelia's Orphic song.
- 4. John Milton and musical abjection : Song and evanescence in "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle"
- Milton and the cavaliers: Henry Lawes, Alice Egerton, and interregnum song
- "HIdeous noise": performance anxiety in "Samson Agonistes" and "Paradise Lost".
- Coda: Spenser and the uninvention of literature
- Works cited
- Index.