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Elizabethan Mythologies - Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music (Hardcover, New): Robin Headlam Wells

Elizabethan Mythologies - Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music (Hardcover, New)

Robin Headlam Wells

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For lovers of music and poetry the legendary figure of Orpheus probably suggests a romantic ideal. But for the Renaissance he is essentially a political figure. Dealing with plays, poems, songs, and the iconography of musical instruments, Robin Headlam Wells reexamines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, of the civilizing power of music and poetry. In doing so he acknowledges a debt to the New Historicism and its recovery of political meanings that traditional historical scholarship has sometimes been guilty of obscuring. But he is also critical of certain faulty premises in New Historicist criticism that have led to some radical misinterpretations of the period.

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Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Robin Headlam Wells
Dimensions:	235 x 164 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43385-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-43385-1
Barcode:	9780521433853