The Acoustic World Of Early Modern England
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The Acoustic World Of Early Modern England
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Author : Bruce R. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-04-15
The Acoustic World Of Early Modern England written by Bruce R. Smith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Journeying into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, this text explores the physical aspects of human speech and the surrounding environment, as well as social and political structures.
Voice In Motion
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Author : Gina Bloom
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-04-19
Voice In Motion written by Gina Bloom and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas about the efficacy of spoken communication spring from an understanding of the voice's materiality. Voices can be cracked by the bodies that produce them, scattered by winds when transmitted as breath through their acoustic environment, stopped by clogged ears meant to receive them, and displaced by echoic resonances. The early modern theater underscored the voice's volatility through the use of pubescent boy actors, whose vocal organs were especially vulnerable to malfunction. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marston, and their contemporaries alongside a wide range of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts—including anatomy books, acoustic science treatises, Protestant sermons, music manuals, and even translations of Ovid—Bloom maintains that cultural representations and theatrical enactments of the voice as "unruly matter" undermined early modern hierarchies of gender. The uncontrollable physical voice creates anxiety for men, whose masculinity is contingent on their capacity to discipline their voices and the voices of their subordinates. By contrast, for women the voice is most effective not when it is owned and mastered but when it is relinquished to the environment beyond. There, the voice's fragile material form assumes its full destabilizing potential and becomes a surprising source of female power. Indeed, Bloom goes further to query the boundary between the production and reception of vocal sound, suggesting provocatively that it is through active listening, not just speaking, that women on and off the stage reshape their world. Bringing together performance theory, theater history, theories of embodiment, and sound studies, this book makes a significant contribution to gender studies and feminist theory by challenging traditional conceptions of the links among voice, body, and self.
Travel And Drama In Early Modern England
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Author : Claire Jowitt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-11
Travel And Drama In Early Modern England written by Claire Jowitt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Drama categories.
Offers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between early modern travel and drama, and re-assesses how travel drama is defined.
Listening For Theatrical Form In Early Modern England
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Author : Deutermann Allison Deutermann
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Listening For Theatrical Form In Early Modern England written by Deutermann Allison Deutermann and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Drama categories.
Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatreEarly modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound, and how they should be heard, were vital questions to the formal development of early modern drama. Ultimately, they shaped the two of its most popular genres: revenge tragedy and city comedy. Simply put, theatregoers were taught to hear these plays differently. Revenge tragedies by Shakespeare and Kyd imagine sound stabbing, piercing, and slicing into listeners' bodies on and off the stage; while comedies by Jonson and Marston imagine it being sampled selectively, according to taste. Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England traces the dialectical development of these two genres and auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays and to the non-dramatic literature that gives this interest in audition texture: anatomy texts, sermons, music treatises, and manuals on rhetoric and poetics.Key Features Invites new attention to the theatre as something heard, rather than as something seen, in performanceProvides a model for understanding aesthetic forms as developing in competitive response to one another in particular historical circumstancesEnriches our sense of early modern playgoers' auditory experience, and of dramatists' attempt to shape it
Gender And Song In Early Modern England
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Author : Leslie C. Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Gender And Song In Early Modern England written by Leslie C. Dunn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.
The Matter Of Song In Early Modern England
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Author : Katherine R. Larson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-29
The Matter Of Song In Early Modern England written by Katherine R. Larson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Music categories.
Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.
Women And Crime In The Street Literature Of Early Modern England
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Author : S. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-10-24
Women And Crime In The Street Literature Of Early Modern England written by S. Clark and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-24 with Fiction categories.
Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chaste, silent, and obedient.
Taste And Knowledge In Early Modern England
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Author : Elizabeth L. Swann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-15
Taste And Knowledge In Early Modern England written by Elizabeth L. Swann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with History categories.
Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.
Passionate Playgoing In Early Modern England
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Author : Allison P. Hobgood
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Passionate Playgoing In Early Modern England written by Allison P. Hobgood and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Drama categories.
Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.
Playing And Playgoing In Early Modern England
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Author : Simon Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Playing And Playgoing In Early Modern England written by Simon Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Art categories.
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.