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Katherine Steele Brokaw - Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama - 9781501703140 - V9781501703140
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Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

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Description for Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 585.

In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England’s long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions. It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones, and bodily effects that allow performed music to evoke the feeling, if not always the reality, of social harmony. Brokaw demonstrates how theatrical music from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries contributed to contemporary discourses on the power and morality of music and its proper role in religious life, shaping the changes made to church music as well as ... Read more

The theater represented the music of the church’s present and past. By bringing medieval and early Tudor drama into conversation with Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Brokaw uncovers connections and continuities across diverse dramatic forms and demonstrates the staying power of musical performance traditions. In analyzing musical practices and discourses, theological debates, devotional practices, and early staging conditions, Brokaw offers new readings of well-known plays (Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale) as well as Tudor dramas by playwrights including John Bale, Nicholas Udall, and William Wager.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501703140
SKU
V9781501703140
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99-1

About Katherine Steele Brokaw
Katherine Steele Brokaw is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Merced.

Reviews for Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
[Staging Harmony]... is an engaging and historically well-informed work that explores the complex relationship of music and drama over the long sixteenth century, filling in the gaps that result from focusing too narrowly on the Elizabethan commercial theater to the exclusion of early Tudor interludes, Reformist morality plays, schoolboy dramas, and court and household entertainments.
Jonathan Baldo, Eastman School ... Read more

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