Unwritten Poetry Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England

by Trudell, Scott A.

• ISBN13: 9780198834663
• ISBN10: 0198834667
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-05-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Scott A. Trudell, University of Maryland

Scott A. Trudell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on early modern poetry, drama, music, and pageantry, as well as media studies, sound studies, performance studies, gender studies, and theories of the lyric. He has published in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Studies in Philology, and he is a co-principal investigator of Early Modern Songscapes, an interdisciplinary digital humanities project on the musical performance of English Renaissance poetry.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Philip Sidney and Musical Poesis
i. Redefining Poetry: Mediation in Sidney's Defence
ii. "Theatre Public": Performance and Communio in Sidney's Arcadia
iii. Musical Experimentation: William Byrd, Astrophil and Stella, and Sidneian Song
iv. Echoes of Sidney: The Lute Song Movement and Bibliographic Performance
2. Children's Mediated Bodies
i. Musical Abuse: The Case of Richard Edwards
ii. Naughty Exercise: John Marston's Unsettling Choristers
iii. Jonson's Cracks: Attenuated Bodies in Cynthia's Revels and Epicene
3. Shakespeare's Musical Thresholds
i. Twelfth Night and Musical Paratext
ii. Performing Objects in A Midsummer Night's Dream
iii. 'More than Matter': Ophelia's Orphic Song
4. John Milton and Musical Abjection
i. Song and Evanescence in A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle
ii. Milton and the Cavaliers: Henry Lawes, Alice Egerton, and Interregnum Song
iii. 'Hideous Noise': Performance Anxiety in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost
Coda: Spenser and the Un-Invention of Literature