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Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Hardcover, New)
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Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in
English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical
activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal
decorum. Wong's analysis broadens our understanding of the general
theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and
complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and
construction of gender during this period. Wong discusses
dramaturgical meanings of music and its association with gender,
love, and erotomania in Renaissance plays. The negotiation between
the dichotomous qualities of the heavenly and the demonic finds
extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern
English plays. However, while ideological dualities identified in
music in traditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal,
various musical representations of characters and situations in
early modern drama would prove otherwise. Wong, building upon the
conventional model of binarism, explores how playwrights created
their musical characters and scenarios according to the received
cultural use and perception of music, and, at the same time,
experimented with the multivalent meanings and significance
embodied in theatrical music.
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