Echo And Meaning On Early Modern English Stages (palgrave Studies In Music And Literature)
by Susan L. Anderson /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature
and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects
generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print. Focusing
on examples where Echo herself appears as a character, this study
shows how echoic techniques permeated literary, dramatic, and
musical performance in the period, and puts forward echo as a
model for engaging with sounds and texts from the past. Starting
with sixteenth century translations of myths of Echo from Ovid
and Longus, the book moves through the uses of echo in
Elizabethan progress entertainments, commercial and court drama,
Jacobean court masques, and prose romance. It places the work of
well-known dramatists, such as Ben Jonson and John Webster, in
the context of broader cultures of performance. The book will be
of interest to scholars and students of early modern drama,
music, and dance.
This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature
and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects
generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print. Focusing
on examples where Echo herself appears as a character, this study
shows how echoic techniques permeated literary, dramatic, and
musical performance in the period, and puts forward echo as a
model for engaging with sounds and texts from the past. Starting
with sixteenth century translations of myths of Echo from Ovid
and Longus, the book moves through the uses of echo in
Elizabethan progress entertainments, commercial and court drama,
Jacobean court masques, and prose romance. It places the work of
well-known dramatists, such as Ben Jonson and John Webster, in
the context of broader cultures of performance. The book will be
of interest to scholars and students of early modern drama,
music, and dance.