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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trudell, Scott A., 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Music and literature > England. English poetry > Early modern. Music and literature. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.

Unwritten poetry : song, performance, and media in early modern England / Scott A. Trudell.

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