Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton - Language, Memory, and Musical Representation

Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many of the qualities that seem to us characteristically 'Shakespearean' ste

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Creeping Music: Sounds, Surfaces, and Spheres in The Merchant of Venice; Chapter 2 “We Have Nonesuch”: The Haunting Melody; Chapter 3 “Re-speaking Earthly Thunder”: Hamlet’s Sonic Phantoms; Chapter 4 Playing Music: Twelfth Night and The Tempest; Chapter 5 Warbling Fancies: Milton, Shakespeare, and the Musical Imagination; Chapter 6 “Serpit Agens”: The Song of the Blest Siren; Chapter 7 “Minims of Nature”: Describing Music in Paradise Lost; Conclusion: Spirits of Another Sort; or, Hymning and Humming;

About the author

Erin Minear is Assistant Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, USA.

Summary

Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many of the qualities that seem to us characteristically 'Shakespearean' ste

Product details

• Authors: Erin Minear, Minear Erin
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032923109
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92310-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Literary studies: general, Renaissance style, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Western "classical" music