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Elizabethan Mythologies: Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music

Elizabethan Mythologies: Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music

Wells, Robin Headlam
Robin Headlam, Wells

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Literary CriticismGeneral Music

ISBN10: 0521035023
ISBN13: 9780521035026
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2006
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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