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Unwritten Poetry: Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England

Autor Scott A. Trudell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mar 2019
Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his peers. Composers including William Byrd and Henry Lawes shaped the transmission of Renaissance lyric verse. Poets from Philip Sidney to John Milton were fascinated by the disorienting influx of musical performance into their works. Musical performance was a driving force behind the period's theatrical and poetic movements, yet its importance to literary history has long been ignored or effaced.This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which--and by whom--its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. Scott Trudell argues that the media of Renaissance poetry can be conceived as any node of transmission from singer's larynx to actor's body. Through his study of song, Trudell outlines a new approach to Renaissance poetry and drama that is grounded not simply in performance history or book history but in a more synthetic media history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198834663
ISBN-10: 0198834667
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 164 x 237 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Trudell's nwritten Poetry is one of several books in this year's crop that especially impresses
Trudell skilfully balances textual analysis, historical detail, and insightful applications of modern media theory to striking effect. Modern anachronisms and tastes are swept aside in order to address the full significance of early modern song and performance. Unwritten Poetry: Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England is essential for scholars interested in the period's poetry, music, and theatre.
We can hope that this book with its focus on the canonical paves the way for exploration of further silenced histories, looking at the place of musical production in the work of authors who are more diverse in their social, gender and educational profile. For those interested in Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton and early modern poetry more widely, this book deftly captures the "simultaneous consternation and exhilaration that poets expressed over their inability to govern the meanings of song".
This valuable, thought-provoking work should inspire a lot of discussion. ...Highly Recommended
Unwritten Poetry offers major interventions not only in early modern literary studies but in musicology, gender studies, theater history, sexuality studies, book history, and media studies. What is more, each of the book's four chapters makes similarly important interventions in the particular subjects that Scott Trudell takes in hand: Sidney, boy actors, Shakespeare, and Milton. I can't overstate how ambitious Trudell's project is or overemphasize my admiration for the solidity, dispatch, and imagination with which he has met the challenges posed by such a wide-ranging book.
Unwritten Poetry is a beautifully articulate study of how English Renaissance poetry and drama dis-articulate themselves, a finely written investigation of the myriad ways that written texts collaborate with and yield place to immaterial powers of song and music, music performed and music merely imagined, music sometimes lost but also surviving in silence, sounds 'buried and overwritten'-- forms of beauty that carry their own kind of danger, whether they belong to Orpheus or Ophelia. The book's scrupulous, resourceful scholarship and its probing critical readings bring one back to familiar works with fresh fascination, a fresh sense of their invention, intelligence, risk, strangeness, and powers of play.

Notă biografică

Scott A. Trudell is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on early modern poetry, drama, music, and pageantry, as well as media studies, sound studies, performance studies, and gender studies. His publications have appeared in journals including PMLA, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Studies in Philology, and he is a co-principal investigator of Early Modern Songscapes, an interdisciplinary digital humanities project on the musical performance of English Renaissance poetry.