Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622
Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622

Author: Edward Doughtie

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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"Elizabethan airs were finely textured, charming, witty --even lusty-- reflections of contemporary life. All of the collections that appeared between 1596 and 1622 except those attributed to Thomas Campion are reproduced in this delightful book. Mr. Doughtie's arrangement is chronological, and he gives close attention to the bibliographical peculiarities of the original books. The lyrics appear with only minor changes, and a sample of the original tablature notation is included. Mr. Doughtie sets forth the available evidence concerning the date and authorship of each poem, recording variants from as many contemporary printed and manuscript versions as are available. He includes as well extensive incidental information-- foreign models, explanations of difficult words and allusions, original spellings-- which makes this volume useful as well as fascinating. Edward Doughtie is Associate Professor of English as Rice University

Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation
Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation

Author: Robin Healey

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 1185

ISBN-13: 1442642696

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"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.

Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance
Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance

Author: Linda Phyllis Austern

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1040117457

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Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study to examine the Elizabethan and Jacobean children’s drama, not only from a musicological perspective, but also drawing on the histories of literature, culture, and the theater. It gives the children’s companies new historical significance, showing that they were an integral and ultimately influential part of the London theatrical world. These companies originated important features of later drama, such as music before and between acts, and the exploitation of different timbres for specific effects. Those interested in music history, English literature, theater history, and cultural history will find this a comprehensive and fascinating study. Of special note are the appendices, which offer a unique and important reference source by providing the only definitive list of the plays and songs used by the children.

Gender and Song in Early Modern England
Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Author: Leslie C. Dunn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1317130472

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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.

Psalms in the Early Modern World
Psalms in the Early Modern World

Author: Linda Phyllis Austern

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1317073983

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Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the Bible was the supreme document, and the Psalms were arguably its most important book.The Psalms played a central role in arbitrating the salient debates of the day, including but scarcely limited to the nature of power and the legitimacy of rule; the proper role and purpose of nations; the justification for holy war and the godliness of peace; and the relationship of individual and community to God. Contributors to the collection follow these debates around the Atlantic world, to pre- and post-Hispanic translators in Latin America, colonists in New England, mystics in Spain, the French court during the religious wars, and both Protestants and Catholics in England. Psalms in the Early Modern World showcases essays by scholars from literature, history, music, and religious studies, all of whom have expertise in the use and influence of Psalms in the early modern world. The collection reaches beyond national and confessional boundaries and to look at the ways in which Psalms touched nearly every person living in early modern Europe and any place in the world that Europeans took their cultural practices.

The Lyric Poem
The Lyric Poem

Author: Marion Thain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 110765288X

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As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre.