Music in English Renaissance Drama [1 ed.] 9780813163611, 9780813153353

Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period whi

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Music in English Renaissance Drama [1 ed.]
9780813163611, 9780813153353

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted i

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This book analyses the earliest representations of Cleopatra in drama produced across Italy and England over the sixteen

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Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she

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Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he

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Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studies This revised edition examines how t

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Thoughtful and thorough, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama explores the interplay between historiography and Renaissan

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In "Wanton Words," Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetor

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A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of

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In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change acro

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